Let’s Talk Redistricting (Part II)

Posted on July 17, 2020August 19, 2020 by Jenny

This is a two-part series reflecting on the 2019 HCPSS redistricting process. In Part I of my series on redistricting, I explained my position on the 2019 HCPSS redistricting process, and I stated that I while I supported the plan, I understood much of the opposition to it. Today, I’m going to discuss opposition that had a different, distinctly malignant flavor. This opposition was at best disingenuous and at worst covertly racist, characterized by vitriol filled with half-truths...

Symbols, Symptoms, and Systems

Posted on July 7, 2020August 17, 2020 by Jenny

On June 27, 2015, ten days after a white supremacist shot and killed nine Black citizens in a Charleston, S.C. church, Oakland Mills High School alumna Bree Newsome Bass climbed up the flagpole at the State Capitol in Columbia, S.C. and removed the Confederate flag flying at the top. It is obvious that such a symbol - one representing a failed nation whose existence was predicated on slavery and the oppression of Black citizens - has no place in the United States. That the flag was deemed wor...

Hall of Shame – June 1, 2020

Posted on June 1, 2020August 17, 2020 by Jenny

No commentary necessary on this one other than “are you @$#*%ing kidding me?”

Hall of Shame – May 27, 2020

Posted on May 27, 2020August 17, 2020 by Jenny

There is so much I could say about the Reopen Howard County rally held in historic Ellicott City yesterday. There’s room for debate on the subject of reopening the county. But it’s clear that the rally was about more than that, and I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves. On a day when many people of color and their allies are reeling from videos of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, and NYC woman Amy Cooper dialing 911 on an African-American man wh...