I have four issues here. One is that a hit and run killing is the same as murder. A life has been taken with a deadly weapon, a vehicle. 

Two, we all know there’s been a rash of them and it’s the people of Anchorage who – if the victim is Alaska Native – pour as much contempt as they can on the dead. It seems the natural thing to do.

(I know Anchorage. I have been here since 1957, longer than anyone here who makes some of these outlandish contemptible racist comments.)

Two, light-weight sentencing for young white perpetrators of hit-and-run killings is a crime in and of itself. It seems to be the norm.

Three, I recommend AFN take its convention to Seattle or Portland. This thing will only get worse.

Four, if my comments are unworthy of print in this section, I would surmise it is as if I was the only minority voice in a small KKK town in the deep-south. In other words, John, keep your opinions to yourself. Don’t forget, you’re a brown man in a white town.