On Dec. 7 The Tribune had an editorial entitled: “Anti-monument celebration was Utah at its very worst.”
The second and third paragraphs of this editorial, which I totally agree with, follow:
“But no one should be able to look at the celebration that unfolded Monday in our state’s Capitol building and see anything other than a disgraceful display of powerful people whooping it up over the pain they were inflicting on, among others, hundreds of thousands of Native Americans.”
“Of course, it isn’t the first time our president was heard to brag about something he’d done that he should have been ashamed of. But the sight of Utah’s governor, its U.S. senators and representatives and leaders of its Legislature grinning and clapping and otherwise having a good time was downright sickening.”
I have to ask why The Tribune included a picture of this “downright sickening celebration” in the Dec. 25 article naming Sen. Orrin Hatch as Utahn of the Year?
John Rindy, West Valley City