Backlash doesn’t speak well of us

To the Editor:

After years when many children were left behind, we finally have a president who ranks education among his highest priorities. What’s more, he planned a televised address to encourage and challenge America’s schoolchildren to maximize their potential.

For this effort President Obama received a sizeable vitriolic backlash. I construe this to be a mixture of racism and a decline in the quality of intelligence and understanding in too large a fraction of this nation’s people.

Surely, America, we must give this president all the support we can muster to enable him to exert his considerable leadership ability.

Phyllis Goldin

River Falls

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