Maryland reckons with a painful history of lynching

Maryland Truth and Reconciliation: More than 6500 black people were lynched between 1865 and 1950. In Maryland, a local community is recognising and reckoning with its violent past, working towards social transformation and racial healing.

As Mayor Jake Day says: 'White people did things that were inhumane, inhuman. So turning that corner means being really honest and frank and saying we are going to be a different society today'. No one has been held accountable for the 1931 lynching of 23-year-old Matthew Williams, brutally tortured and killed by a white mob. A plaque now commemorates these events, encouraging the community to face its past. Activist Amber Green, who fought for the plaque, says: 'This marker is not the finish line. It's literally us passing the baton on a relay race'. Historian Charles Chavis Jr agrees: 'The biggest task that we have moving through this century is to really find a way to connect with our shared humanity'.

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Rewriting the script to reset the future! No more resets, no more charters, no more shell company

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Trying to use and manipulate history for the gibs is pretty desperate, and definitely sad.

[RhiannaDearston]

More monopolization of oppression and the pushing of collectivized guilt, boring

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I have tremendous respect for Mr. Martin Luther King. What he stood for, his courage, and his activism will never be forgotten.

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[toadfaceass]

So?
Britain wrestles with a painful history of Roman slavery.
I, as a 72nd gen survivor of the Roman conquest of Britain demand reparations from Italy!

[ronchamp]

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[cinhtanu]

Don't get things twisted, you did yourself a favor.

[Alttoviulu]

Accused rapists are still hastily lynched in USA to this day. Violence has been given completely to the state, though.

[michelletrimmer]

I realize we need to discuss these things but I don't understand why the other marker had to be removed. Instead of using a criminal like George Floyd, we need to be using people like this innocent man dragged from his hospital bed as a person to show the true horrors that occurred with the black community.

[sarac]

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