As Professor Annette Gordon Reed contends in his paper regarding the HLS shield, “…this is a moment for daring and creativity... [and] this would be the perfect time to… tie the past to the present and to the future.” Upon visiting the slavery memorial at HLS, I noticed that the way the administration decided to “tie the past to the future” was to celebrate the hard work and materialized contribution slavery made to the “…founding of Harvard Law School”. Nevertheless, I think that there could be a better way to “tie the past to the future.” While honoring the heavy work done by those enslaved undoubtedly erases the previously negative attitude toward the HLS shield and the administration’s reactions, it is more meaningful to remember such
