Steve May: Symbols matter

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Steve May, who is a licensed independent clinical social worker and a member of the Selectboard in Richmond, where he resides.
Symbols mattered last week to whomever it was who scrawled a swastika across the wall of a bathroom stall at Burlington’s Fletcher Free Library. After all, this person chose a place dedicated to knowledge and wisdom, and at that place decided to reference the most barbaric period in recent human history. This place dedicat