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While you have done everything you can to raise me in your image, your actions outside of our house have made that impossible. You have imposed your views of racial hatred and prejudice on me for long enough. Now that I am sixteen I am able to see what you really are: scared to lose your job to a colored man who would work twice as hard as you for half the money. The day will come when your actions will comeback to haunt you. As years pass you will realize that your hatred for an innocent race has cost you what could have been a beautiful relationship with your only son. Word of the klan’s latest hate crime has reached me, and I can only assume your involvement. I consider all these events awful random acts of fear and hatred but this one especially perturbed me. People won’t respond to your weak attempts at instilling fear in them. You burn a cross; you kill a cat; while its wrong I can live with it, however when you decide to end the life of another person over a mere four acres of land I can not stand by and say nothing. While the elderly coupled you brutally massacred was nothing but two useless defiant niggers to you, they were friends to me. They were the family that you could never be. They cared about me and did not force me into their beliefs. Everyday while you forced me to slave away my childhood in the grocery store to pay for your acts of bigotry, the Holberts took me in as one of their own. Mr. Holbert began working at the market for almost eight months ago and did amazing work. He was a good man who would never turn down another man in need. That’s much more than I could ever say about you. You and Wesley along with half of Lake City sat around eating your deviled eggs and drinking your lemonade (Ezparsa 2) while two innocent citizens with the same rights as you and I fell victim to a mob of scared white trash. Your obliteration of their inalienable rights by demeaning death tactics and methods of torture are things that God couldn’t even begin to forgive. If I felt it would do any good I would report your actions to the sheriff, however I know that even if you admitted to the crime their isn’t a jury in the state of South Carolina that would find you guilty. I only have one question for you dad: What will you do with the extra four acres of land? Would you have forced me to cultivate it like one of grandpa’s slaves or was Mr. Holbert’s death just a warning for the rest of the colored community in Lake City? No matter what the reason none could be justifiable. You ended the lives of two humans not animals. That’s right niggers are humans too whether you like it or not and one day in the near future you just might have relatives working for this so-called lower class. Ponder this the next time you decide to hunt people for sport. I can only hope that in my journey west I can discover the true spirit of democracy. I have decided to join the Republican Party in the spirit of the Holberts and send a portion of my earnings to their children each month as reparation for your actions. I know that it will never fill the void left by your hate, however I feel somebody in this family must step up and right what is wrong with what this family stands for. I hope that you conscience will guide you in your life choices. The only suggestion I can give you in my absence is make your own choices. Do not enlist in the KKK just because its what’s socially accepted and don’t kill another man just because of the color of his skin. Instead embrace your colored brother. Treat them with the same respect and dignity demanded by any white man. Follow your ideas, not the ones planted in your heads by your family. You are better than the cowards who are running society in Lake City. They are a group of scared good old boys who fear for their jobs and the jobs of their children. These are the same men who stifle your mothers from expressing their opinions, working, voting. If I could give you one peace of advice it is to get out of South Carolina while you still can. Before you know it you will be financially confined to Lake City and you won’t be able to leave. You will be corrupted by the backwards views of all of those around you and you wont be able to escape. Please continue to write to me as I will have much to tell about my new life. If you need a way to contact me I will always keep in touch with the Holberts. Please take care and consider what I have said. Bibliography: Esparza, Raul. Esparzas.net. "Ku Klux Klan." Esparzas.net Publishing. 1997. 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