To the editor:
I was stunned by the letter to the editor in your Feb. 24 issue by George P. Cooper. Your policy is that you will print any letter that is tasteful and accurate. This one was …
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To the editor:
I was stunned by the letter to the editor in your Feb. 24 issue by George P. Cooper. Your policy is that you will print any letter that is tasteful and accurate. This one was neither tasteful nor accurate. Mr. Cooper rants on and on about a proposed new monument to “perpetual guilt”, yet he never states what that monument is to be, so his letter is confusing to begin with.
Mr Brigidi's letter that he refers to is about UNESCO Port Markers, which are all along our East Coast and into the Caribbean. They are to mark the port’s involvement with the slave trade, as well as to memorialize those souls who were enslaved. The only guilty people are long dead, those who were engaged in the slave trade. The guilt of today that Mr. Cooper mentions should lie with people who do not want an accurate accounting of history taught in our schools or communities. And the Civil War by no means paid the debt for slavery, as Mr Cooper states, nothing ever has.
Tinka Perry
28 Andrews Ct.