Editor, Manteca Bulletin,

What was more embarrassing than watching live, the Kanye West circus in the Oval Office? Hint: Reading the letter from Frank Aquila praising that side show as something to be proud of. (“Dems trying to keep Black vote intact”, Oct 22).

If you watched Kanye West talking non-stop, jumping from subject to subject faster than Trump could lie about it, you know what you were watching was a man who clearly was off his meds. I’m referring to Kaye, not Trump, who is usually the subject of three-ring circus rants like this. I have no idea what Aquila was watching. It surely wasn’t the live performance. Maybe a much edited rerun on Fox and Friends or maybe he just read about it on some Right-Wing Blog, like Alex Jones or Breitbart, he seems to prefer these two. I guess it’s easier to just cut-and-paste what he wants to hear rather than using live video to make his own decisions on what is true and what is Trump-like.

In another vain attempt to connect Democrats to slavery, Aquila once again, goes back to pre-civil war days. He omits how national leaders who owned slaves like, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who by the way, actually was the founder of  The Democratic-Republican Party (formally “The Republican Party”. So much for going back to the future on that front.

Then Aquila does something very Trump-like to show how he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. He claims he has a, what sounds like an imaginary black friend. Aquila claims his “Imaginary” black friend gave him all that black history he shared with us about slaves and the KKK (Who supported Trump). Aquila also claimed his “Imaginary” friend ventured into “Black Neighborhoods” to inform those who are “Uneducated”. First of all, I had no idea Manteca had a “Uneducated Black Neighborhood” or that Aquila was too scared to venture there, sending his imaginary black friend who was fearless because he was once a Marine. Maybe if Aquila had served at all, he wouldn’t be so afraid of imaginary Uneducated Black Neighborhoods in Manteca. I said his tale was Trump-like because it reminded me of that rally in Arizona where Trump noticed a black man in the crowd and said “Oh, look at my little African American over here”. Speaks volumes, doesn’t it?

Larry Baca

Manteca