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Letters to the Editor: Mayor should host soda pop summit with student San Francisco Chronicle readers FacebookTwitterEmail Fifth-grader Ja’Mari Oliver was stopped at the Safeway in the Castro, where he was accused of stealing a sandwich he had just bought.Scott Strazzante/The Chronicle Regarding “Rally set after Black student accused of theft” (May 5): In 2009, former President Barack Obama organized the “beer summit,” bringing together Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the police officer who had arrested Gates in error. Mayor London Breed should in like manner bring together Ja’Mari Oliver, his mother, and the Safeway personnel involved in Oliver’s detention. ....
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Letters to the Editor: Don t diminish the legacies of great leaders San Francisco Chronicle FacebookTwitterEmail In this June 12, 1944, file photo President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks on a national radio program from the White House in Washington. Roosevelt was diagnosed early in 1944 as suffering from high blood pressure, hypertensive heart disease, cardiac failure and acute bronchitis.Eugene Abbott/Associated Press Regarding “Lincoln’s legacy not aging well, school panel decides” (Front Page, Dec. 16): I am shocked that a school district advisory committee recommends expunging the names of former presidents Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt from local school sites. I fully support removing statues and honorifics dedicated to those who defended slavery and worked to construct the cruel system of racist segregation and oppression that replaced it. But I am offended by efforts to diminish the historical legacy of two of America’s greatest president ....