Jackson deserved more reverence than Kirk

I read in The Gazette that Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered the flags lowered to half-staff Feb. 20 all day to honor Jesse Jackson, a civil rights leader who died. I immediately thought, “Only one day?” So, I looked up how many days Gov. Reynolds had the flag lowered for Charlie Kirk and discovered that it was for four days from Sept. 10 through 14.

Reverend Jesse Jackson was a seminal civil rights leader, politician, and diplomat. He championed economic justice and interracial coalitions. He worked with Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and ran for president in 1984 and 1988. He formed the "Rainbow Coalition" to unite minority groups, women, and workers. He was a known international negotiator for hostage releases, and received the Presidential Medal of freedom in 2000.

I had never heard of Charlie Kirk until his death. When I first looked him up, I found out he was a gun rights activist who said, " I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." His other quotes show him to be a racist, anti-trans, anti-Semitic, angry man.

Jesse Jackson was black and Charley Kirk was white. So, when Kim Reynolds only gives Jesse Jackson one day of honor, it makes her look racist.

Christine Lehman-Engledow

Swisher