With many thanks to drone photographer Bryan Paul, the Spy is eager to share a different perspective on the Black Lives Matters mural on High Street in downtown Chestertown.
Nothing can be more dramatic or moving than to see art from 500 feet above. With the help of Bryan’s excellent equipment, not only can Kent County residents know the power of words in a setting like High Street, but these images broadcast to the world a town in harmony with the conviction that, yes, Black Lives Matter in Chestertown, Maryland.
This video is approximately two minutes in length.
Bettye Walters says
This is beautiful. So proud to be a part of the Chestertown community.
Helen says
As a tax paying resident of Chestertown I am appalled that it doesn’t say “All Lives Matter”
A notice should have been sent to EVERY resident to vote on this. All you have done is divide this town.
As for me I will no longer shop at the market or downtown stores.
BLM is a Markist group that protests by burning down businesses. They don’t care about black lives.
Ron Jordan says
Helen, it is so sad that you can’t understand that the reason for Black Lives Matter is because for the majority of this nation’s history, it hasn’t. Whether you wish to believe that BLM is a Marxist organization, it is not, many folks said the Dr. Martin Luther King was a communist, which wasn’t true and he too was telling America to live up to its creed “that all men/women are created equal” for up to that time America didn’t live up to that creed. BLM is again taking on the mantle of what Dr. King started and here are 50 years later telling you and America that Black Lives Matter as much as “All Lives Matter.” When you can acknowledge that I have the right as a black man living and working in Kent County Md, as you and your family do, then, the moniker “All Lives Matter” will have encompassed have all Americans, don’t you agree?
Nancy L. Callahan says
ALL LIVES MATTER
Joanne Ghio says
I agree with the sentiments expressed by Bettye Walters and would add that we can’t say ALL lives matter until we do some serious work to ensure that the lives of people of color matter.
Bob Moores says
There are a couple of ways the phrase “black lives matter” can be interpreted. One is that black lives matter more than white lives; another is that black lives matter as much as white lives. If you go to the website blacklivesmatter.com you will find nothing about superiority of black lives over whites. Instead you find the quest for equal justice under the law, and elimination of white supremacy, objectives in harmony with the latter interpretation.
Some whites ask: “Then why not simply say all lives matter?” Yes, it is certainly true that all lives matter, but that phrase does not emphasize the problem. From the blacklivesmatter.com site:
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer [vigilante George Zimmerman]: Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.
Since Trayvon Martin’s murder in 2013 there have been quite a number of young unarmed black men killed by white policemen. In almost all cases, the policemen (or vigilantes), even if indicted, have been acquitted of wrongdoing. I don’t see similar cases in arrests of young white men. To a fair-minded person, does this sound like equal justice?
As a white man, I try to look at this situation from a black perspective. And that perspective says that this is not equal justice in America. The problem must be made more visible, and if a few street paintings help, I am all for them.