Based on the highly arguable assertion that “for far too long” our city administration has been an obstacle to progress, Jovani Patterson argues that we should shrink the size of the Baltimore City Council (“Let’s reform bloated City Council,” Sept. 4).
He is wrong simply because this diminishes political participation for a Black community in Baltimore that had for far too long been denied — and then organized to utilize — their rights. When you take something away from people, as has recently been done to women on reproductive rights, you diminish basic freedoms promised by our democracy. That divides and not unites us.
I hope Patterson and his sponsor David Smith, The Baltimore Sun’s principal owner, recalibrate their civic advocacy to advance and not restrict the rights of all Baltimoreans.
— Stan Heuisler, Baltimore
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