Yesterday
was a very emotional day for me. Everything seemed to hit me at once. At our
first stop we got a surprise visit from Mr. Anthony Hinton, a victim of a very
corrupt judicial system in the south. Mr. Hinton was out away for 30 years on a
crime he did not commit, and a good portion of those years were spent on death
row. His story was very painful to listen to. It hurt me that people could take
someone's life away from that, but the hardest thing to do while he was
speaking, was watch his facial expressions and the hurt that was in his eyes.
Aside from feeling very said while hearing Mr. Hinton spoke I also felt very
empowered that day. We had the opportunity to visit a confederate cemetery, as
we turned the corner I began to feel sick because all saw was a field of
confederate flags flying high, it disgusted me. But, the minute I got off the
bus I walked up close to one and I touched it. It was as if I took the power
away from it and there was nothing anybody could do about it. I touched the
flag because I decided not to be afraid anymore. I touched the flag because it
doesn't mean anything if I don't let it.
Kelsey
Curtis, The Park School of Baltimore
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