Is a Maryland monument for war veterans racially insensitive?

[MDCivilServant]

Imagine going to war for your country and then be given second billing on a war monument. The last names listed are for the "COLORED" veterans.

Should this monument be updated or left as a documentation that racism once existed in America? (To see a clearer picture click the link, then double click the picture of the monument.)

All service men and women deserve respect for the sacrifices.

http://static-71-126-182-50.washdc.f...p?Marker=33585

Colored
John Bowie, Jr. • Bernice Christopher Carter • Harry Jackson • William Henry Jones • Ireland Longer • Sheridan Veale • Arthur Wallace • Rufus S. Wallace • Elsworth Warrick • Fletcher J. White

[Passarino]

Leave it as is. It's how the country was 100 years ago and should be preserved like that.

[Marshan Man]

Leave it. History shouldn't be whitewashed.

[Baltimatt]

Agreed--

It's part of history, and if it makes some folks scratch their heads wondering "why", so much the better.

[octoburn]

Agreed. It might even encourage people to look into the reasons things were done a certain way as part of history and learn about it.

[Gopher]

It is what it is. I don't care one way or the other.

[BlandFood]

Not the end of the world, it shows they were brave enough to both serve and die with distinction. Props to those men.