Silver Spring Residents Reject Idea of Moving Confederate Statue to Local Park (MD)

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BY AARON KRAUT
Published: 2015.09.02 09:16

Many in Silver Spring aren’t too thrilled with the idea of moving Rockville’s controversial Confederate soldier statue to Silver Spring’s Jesup Blair Local Park ...

“It would also be extremely insensitive to the feelings of most, if not all, of the current residents of our diverse Silver Spring community.”

Others have offered a simpler response.

“This must be a joke,” one resident wrote on a Silver Spring neighborhood listserv ...

http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2015/Silver-Spring-Residents-Reject-Idea-of-Moving-Confederate-Statue-to-Local-Park/