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January 26, 2007
Call it Harriet Tubman Park
The Brooklyn Papers, Editorial
In light of the fact that Ratner failed to celebrate Brooklyn's heritage by naming a new Nets arena after Jackie Robinson, the Papers calls on officials to do the right thing and name the Brooklyn Bridge Park for Harriet Tubman.
Harriet Tubman was a modern-day Moses. An escaped slave, she returned repeatedly to pre-Emancipation Maryland to rescue, by her estimate, 7,000 slaves. She later became a spy for the North during the Civil War and even helped plan a raid that freed 750 more human beings.
The naming of “Harriet Tubman Park” would not only raise the profile of this great American hero, but also undo some of the damage Ratner has done with his insensitive partnership with a bank founded on profits made from the blood of the human beings Tubman devoted her life to saving.
Posted by lumi at January 26, 2007 8:02 AM