To the editor:

These words are in response to Patti Almanza’s letter, “Prejudice shows through columnist’s writings.”

The first thing I have to say is that the title of the letter would tend to make someone who did not read my writing on a regular basis think that I was prejudiced and a racist. I will point out in short order that this letter of yours is nothing more than the irrational thoughts of someone lost in their own delusional world.

Bear with me, but I find it necessary to break this letter down point by point. Otherwise there could be misunderstandings and I will have none of that. I have to start off with this: If I write so badly as you put it, why do I have a column in this paper that comes out every weekend? You need to think about that one.

You, Ms. Almanza, need to go back and re read. “Pride in the South and in Richmond County.” There are no references as you stated to me hating anyone, let alone hating people who aren’t like me. Why not come on out and say it? You’re trying to say that I said something in this letter about black people because they are not like me. Not one reference to what you claim.

So I should not tie two subjects together? Why not? They were on the same plane. Someone talking trash about Southern heritage and someone who is not even from here (RoadSnacks) talking trash about our county and our people.

By the way, you are not from here either. You put out too much info on Facebook. Not a good thing to do. Our Southern heritage belongs to all of us, black and white, good and bad of the past. The past that none of us living today had anything to do with. Yet there are those of us, black and white, who do not want peace. I feel sorry for both of our races.

You talk about how I jumped from subject to subject — try two: Southern life and our county. You claim that I had taken aim at you and other good Southern folks like yourself. Again, not one reference to any good Southern folks, as you put it. I don’t know what you could have been reading, but it was not this letter.

You once again try to make the words “good old boy “ sound like excrement from your bowels. Your own research makes you look foolish. It states that it means a man being characteristic of certain “Southern white males…” This all coming out of a company from, of all places, Boston. Give me a damn break — who the hell from Boston is going to know much if anything about a “certain Southern man” or “good old boy?”

I will tell you again, Patty, our definition is as follows: A good man, a man who you can talk to, black or white. Someone you wish to share a meal with. Let that sink in if you can.

You want the definition to be a man who goes out and burns crosses in black people’s yards. It is not our definition. That’s just in your warped thought patterns. Get help as quick as you can, Patty.

You state that I have hate for all mankind. You talked about prejudiced rants every weekend. I have to laugh. You really have the nerve to claim that this paper would allow this? It’s all in the archives; watch your slanderous mouth. That’s almost as bad as making false police reports. Is it not?

You state I hate the president and added that he is a black man. Only half the truth, but I might also add that is half-white. Is he not? You truly have overloaded your mouth when you said, “you hate gays and lesbians.” I will lump in that you also stated that I hated every religion that is not mine. You went too far with those two. I now will call you what you are, that being nothing but a damn liar.

Never would the paper have ever allowed me to say anything hateful of gays and lesbians. They are our friends, our neighbors, our brothers and our sisters. Yet you use them to try to get at me. I would not be happy with you for trying to use my gay brothers and sisters. That was not a good move on your part. People do not like to be used to get vengeance on someone they do not even know. Not a very bright move on your part, I have to say.

The only time I have ever talked about Muslims were the radicalized Muslims who have killed our sons and daughters. The converts who come out of our prison system. You know, the radicalized, not the man who runs the shop down the street where you eat. You know, the one you are friends with, the non-radicalized one who does not want to cut you head off. That one. Got it? No misunderstanding?

Now I’m the reason the county is the worst — me and people like me. You know, the local businessman. You know, just like me, the white man. Oh, I was not supposed to say that because that’s not politically correct.

Damn being politically correct. I am a grown man. I will say what I want and I will damn well do what I want.

My back will never be bent by what others think I should say. Nor by the ones who are so damn stupid they think they can translate my words into what they think my words mean. My words mean what I say they mean and nothing more. Words that are thought out and not just gushed out to make ridiculous sentences.

Robert Lee

Rockingham