In our local excellent Jesuit institutions, including De Smet Jesuit High School and 51ºÚÁÏ University High, we are taught to be “Men for Others.†We are dictated to help our fellow humans in their life paths for the greater glory of God. We are given an excellent education to prepare us for college, including often post-collegiate work — such as lawyers and politicians like U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt — so that we can help improve the human experience for all.
Sen. Schmitt, Missouri's Republican junior senator and a De Smet graduate, must not have been paying attention. He has brought great shame to the state of Missouri and those of us who value our Jesuit Catholic education with his recent speech, unapologetically promoting blatantly racist white nationalism. ("Tony Messenger: Eric Schmitt offers 'apocalyptic' view of what it means to be American," Sept. 10.)
Senator, we were not taught by the Jesuits to be “Men for Others Who Look Like Us,†or “Men for Other White Christian European Descendants,†but clearly and simply “Men for Others.â€
Shame, shame, shame.
Jim McCormick
Lake Saint Louis
SLUH class of 1975
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