Monuments Should Reflect Today's Thinking
Document Type
Letter to the Editor
Journal Title
The Baltimore Sun
Publication Date
1-20-2016
Abstract
With the recommendations of the task force created to consider what to do about Confederate-era monuments in Baltimore now before Mayor Stephanie Rawlings–Blake, we are embroiled once again in the issues surrounding the display of symbols representing people, institutions or ideas that most people no longer accept.
Whether the subject is a building, such as the recently renamed Byrd Stadium at the University of Maryland College Park; a monument; a plaque or a flag, the opposition to removing these negative symbols relies on two basic arguments. Those arguments are reasonable and worth exploring. At the end of the day, however, they are either inapplicable or can be accommodated. Accordingly, society can develop a principled method for removing objects that convey messages that we reject.
Recommended Citation
Steven P. Grossman, Opinion, Monuments Should Reflect Today's Thinking, Balt. Sun (Jan. 20, 2016), http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-confederate-remove-20160120-story.html.