LETTER TO EDITOR: Letter writer was way off base with her charge of racial language

Published 6:00 am Wednesday, December 23, 2020

You are lucky, Charleen Markle, that baseball season is over because you are way off base and would be tagged out.

That old reference book, the dictionary, defines Thug thus — n. 1. Formally, one of an organization of religious, professional assassins in northern India; 2. Any cutthroat or ruffian. (

How do you think they would like that?

And, nice work Frederic.

Richard Phillips

New Iberia