[Oe List ...] Symbols are Important

[Joy Bonafield via OE]

Rod,

  Thank you for sharing this.  I had no idea this was in process, but I
wholeheartedly agree with you.  Didn't know Harriet was going on the $20.
Hard to keep current with everything changing daily, weekly.  I encourage
you to consider posting this to a larger audience as well -- FB perhaps, or
however you share thoughts with a larger community.

  Grace & peace,

Joyce Bonafield-Pierce
Mineapolis

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Rod Rippel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
>     Symbols are important!
>     I doubt there are many citizens who can remember one thing Andrew
> Jackson did for our Country.  Not that he didn’t do many perhaps.  But I am
> objecting to the President’s recent proposal to remove Harriet Tubman as
> the new Symbol on our 20-Dollar bill.  The struggle to eliminate slavery as
> an institution and the subsequent turmoil of Civil Rights for all citizens
> up until, and including this very day, have made a huge impact on our
> nation and its history.
> That struggle deserves to be recognized and memorialized and not dismissed.
> Tubman, or some equivalent figure from our Black citizen’s population,
> deserves to be honored, and not summarily dismissed by our current
> President.
>
> Rod Rippel
>
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