Regarding the Aug. 9 story “Black and Unarmed: Since Michael Brown died a year ago, police killings of unarmed people have hit black men disproportionately,” from the Washington Post, I’m at a loss to understand why The Columbian published it. If the purpose was to raise black anger, it may have done that. If the purpose was to ease racial tension, it most likely failed. So much was omitted — like how many unarmed people (black or white) were killed by blacks so far this year. Or what was going on before Michael Brown was shot. It brings to mind the old saying “if you don’t read the paper you’re uninformed, if you do read the paper you’re misinformed.”
Fred Cloe
Skamania
