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