More of the Same

Almost exactly one year ago:

Pride and Shame

The post contrasts the story of WLHS grad Armon Wilson, who walked all the way to his polling place to be there when they opened, with this social media post from another young person in Howard County:

This week brings a very similar story. It’s covered in the November issue of The Business Monthly.

Eagle Scout Fights Back Against Hate Crime

In short: Ryan Lippe, a senior at Marriotts Ridge High School, created an outdoor classroom for Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez Church Preschool as his Eagle Scout project. When he returned to the site some time later he discovered that “someone had carved hate symbols and phrases into every bench.”

The story of how Lippe responded will make you feel good. But the efforts that someone (or more than one person, perhaps) took to deface what was intended to be a learning space for preschoolers make me feel heartsick. 

More of the same.

More of the same.

More of the same in Howard County and still people say that calling it out and asking people to face it is “divisive.”

Here’s what Eagle Scout Ryan Lippe said about his experience coming face-to-face with those hate symbols and phrases:

Excerpt from The Business Monthly, November, 2021

So do I.