To the editor:

Last week's Phoenix contained a very well written but totally irrelevant letter from a highly regarded person of our town about Black Lives Matter in the inner courtyard of the high school. The criticism was that this mural had some distant connections to a political philosophy that does not appear anywhere on the mural. Alas, that favorite Boogieman of the 1950s McCarthy era seems so very out of touch with the bitter realities of today, even the Russians don't want it.

In contrast, it speaks well of Bristol High School that they want our kids to know more about some of these issues, seeing as they are exposed every day on television and social media to the injustices and horrible murders that gave birth to this ghetto-based movement.

Perhaps some of them will actually take a deeper interest in politics and heaven forbid, they can even listen in to the current Congressional Committee hearings about The Insurrection or tune in to the daily news coverage of another random school shooting.

George Burman
66 Highland Road