Mish Mash Margie

Observer, wanderer, thinker, doer. Baltimore, MD.

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I love this park. #Baltimore #pattersonpark #nofilter (at Patterson Park Soccer Field)

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Tip for 4th of July: make friends with people who have rooftop decks. #canton #Baltimore

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Trail shoes. #AppalachianTrail #hiking

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Thank you, "Crackers", a smelly and kind thru-hiker for showing us the map on the #AppalachianTrail today.

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Good morning, my cute #succulents. I rescued these from work where they were sitting outside drenched by the recent torrential downpours in #Baltimore. They're repotted now and healing in my windowsill.

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Heading out for a #hike! So giddy right now. #thankyouREI #chacos #osprey #keen #columbia #toomanyhashtags

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It sure does. #quotes #inspiration #eecummings

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This new blue looks good on you, cafeteria! @cityuprising loving on Highlandtown Elem/Middle in #Baltimore . #CityUprising

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First coat complete! @cityuprising upgrading the paint at Highlandtown Elem/Middle in east Baltimore. #CityUprising (at Highlandtown Elementary School)

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Fresh paint! #CityUprising @cityuprising at work at Highlandtown elem/middle in #eastbaltimore. #Baltimore (at Highlandtown Elementary School)

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Taping off and prepping for a new paint job at Highlandtown 237. @cityuprising #CityUprising #Baltimore (at Highlandtown Elementary School)

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Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School is getting a much needed upgrade to its paint. Thank you @cityuprising! #Baltimore #CityUprising #everyonematters (at Highlandtown Elementary School)

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#CityUprising @cityuprising is upgrading the paint at Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #237. Here we go! (at Highlandtown Elementary School)

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"You take brokenness aside and make it beautiful" #flashback to the #baltimoreuprising as we start #CityUprising @belovejoshua @cityuprising @displaying #gallerychurch #baltimore #everyonematters (at Baltimore City Hall)

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"Greater things have yet to come and greater things are still to be done in this city" #CityUprising @CityUprising @displaying #gallerychurch #baltimore #everyonematters #love (at Washington Hill, Baltimore, Maryland)

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Summer. (at Archbishop Borders School)

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Human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson spoke to Fresh Air last fall about changing the conversation about race:

“Our newest project at the Equal Justice Initiative is really trying to change the conversation about race in this country. We’ve done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality. … You see it in the South, but it’s everywhere.

And we want to talk more about slavery and we want to talk more about this era between Reconstruction and World War II, which I call “An Era of Racial Terrorism” — of racial terror and violence that shaped attitudes. I want to talk more about the civil rights era, not through the lens of celebration. We’re too celebratory of civil rights these days. We have these 50th anniversaries and everyone is happy and everybody is celebrating. Nobody is talking about the hardship.

It’s almost as if the civil rights movement was this three-day event: On Day 1, Rosa Parks didn’t give up her seat on the bus. On Day 2, [the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.] led a march on Washington. And on the third day, we signed all of these laws. And if you think about that history in that way, you minimize the trauma, the damage, the divides that were created. You can’t segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries. …

Our newest project is really trying to introduce some concept of what transitional justice requires: some commitment to truth and reconciliation.”

Stevenson’s memoir is called Just Mercy. 

Photo: South Carolina governor calls for confederate flag’s removal. 

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Words well written.