Opinion by Michele L. Norris: A different kind of inauguration in Annapolis
on the Annapolis waterfront, where years ago enslavers arrived at a bustling port in ships carrying Africans that were listed as “cargo.”
There was a loud gasp from the audience when Pittman pointed to a building across from the Maryland State House and said that his slave-owning ancestor’s home was on the very spot where the governor’s residence now stands and where Moore, his wife and two children now live.For Maryland, this was a new kind of inauguration, one that drew a direct line between the state’s history of oppression and the glaring racial disparities in the state today.
Maryland has always been like the middle child in the trio of states known as the DMV. Ironically nicknamed the “Free State,” Maryland has long been overshadowed by the political dynamism of D.C. and the fevered economy of Northern Virginia. Moore, himself flanked by two sisters, is trying to change that.
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