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Response to Rep. Doreen Costa's Letter to the Editor

Safety Pins, Sanctuary

In response to Representative Doreen Costa’s Letter to the Editor

I have voted in many, many elections, for both Democrats and Republicans. My candidates haven't always won. I shook my head at the contrariness of the opposition and went on. Never in my life have I reacted like this. I am frightened. I feel like I did on 9/11, that our country has suffered a great tragedy. We have taken an emotionally unstable megalomaniac who incites violence at his rallies and has little understanding of government, who is full of hate and brags about sexual assaults, and made him president. I am terrified of what will happen.

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My consolation is that the American people did not elect this president. He lost the popular vote. And we can keep America the home of the brave and the free. I wear a safety pin as a way of saying that I am here for you. I stand with the poor and the powerless. Not that I’m very powerful myself. I’m just a little old lady. But we are stronger together than we are alone.

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This country has a long and lively history of civil disobedience. I am proud that Mayor Elorza and Governor Raimondo declared they would maintain Providence and Rhode Island as sanctuaries. Let us not forget that:

Slavery was legal

The holocaust was legal

Jim Crow was legal

The Japanese Internment camps were legal

But they were wrong.

Sincerely,

Linda Crotta Brennan

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