That may be why in 2016 an outsider presidential candidate, contrary to all expectations, vaulted to the top of his party. All alone at first, he pushed back on the mass Third World immigration/multi-culturalism project. Will a heretic from immigration orthodoxy vault into the White House?

Tom Shuford

Lenoir

Reaction to column, ‘We can’t turn a blind eye’

Recently I was privileged to take part in the inaugural Hickory Playground event organized by Dylan Tashjian, Robert Fuller and Jordan Makant.

Eight playwrights were randomly assigned a group of actors, and each group had 48 hours to write, block and rehearse a 10-minute play that was performed July 23 at the SALT Block.

In consideration of Jon LaFontaine’s “We can’t turn a blind eye” column, our group chose to portray the aftermath of a drug raid from the perspective of the person apprehended. If we had a chance to learn the stories of those pictured in the drug raids or whose mugshots the paper runs with regularity, we’d likely see that the fact that they use drugs is but one of many exacerbating factors in the adversity that they face on a daily basis.