50-year members.

The letters section of the July 15 News contained a very concise entry from a person who put out that "not even" 3.5 percent of today's 50-year Florida Bar members are women.

One can hope the intent of the four sentences was the infrequent praising of legal pioneers. However, the wording suggests it to be aligned with the frequent raising of venal spears used to stoke the unending fire of bitterness and resentment that heats the cauldron of grievances in perpetuity. Such is done so that the privileged of today (and probably tomorrow) reap benefits partly sowed on sympathy for past victims of real and imagined sins perpetrated by the privileged of yesterday, all under the guise that things are...