Editor:

No three native sons are more in need of reading “Native Son” by Richard Wright than Messrs. Adam Bazemore and Luke Smith, whose letters appeared in the Sept. 21 edition of the Statesboro Herald, and Mike Mull, whose letter appeared Sept. 23.  

You can’t visit the first two floors of the African-American museum in Washington and believe “slavery did not seek to exterminate anyone.”   

Too far to visit? Then drive over to the lynching museum in Alabama — museumandmemorial.eji.org.  

That the Sons of Confederate Veterans is a cult is clear by Mr. Bazemore’s language and Mr. Smith’s and Mr. Mull’s history (see outstanding Mississippian Shelby Foote’s account and note he calls it the “Civil War”).  

Dred Scott (1857) illustrates the massive federal interference in local Southern affairs ardently requested and received by the Southern states before the war proving “state’s rights” quickly was set aside next to capturing people fleeing the horror. 

Bible quotes were used by antebellum slave owners and 1909 spectators sending lynching postcards to their relatives (shared with Georgia Southern students every semester), so swapping Bible quotes is meaningless and meant to distract.  

Patton’s army included President Obama’s grandfather, my great uncle who died in 1944 providing air support, and our African-American neighbors’ relatives who can’t find the graves of their 1909 era ancestors to this day.    

Dr. Greg Brock

Statesboro