At Wes Moore’s inaugural ball, no one danced harder than Black women
; how much intense, unrelenting mothering she did with her son — the private school, the military school, the tough love.
“This was a long time coming. A loooong time,” said Mary Butler Murphy, 79, who has met Mother Teresa, a couple of popes and presidents.She’s active in Maryland politics and a veteran of political celebrations, but promised this was the one where she was going to “party all night.” A sequined turban added glamour, but her key was “comfortable shoes.” In this case, fluffy black slippers.
“To everyone in this room and across this state — tonight is about you,” Moore said to the thousands before him. “Today was about you. Tonight is not a political moment nor a moment for a political party. It is a human moment — a Maryland moment — in which we all get to share.”“And when Wes Moore was elected, I said, ‘Duffy and I are going to be here.”And Lucinda Nobles cheered loudly when Moore took the stage.
Moore said Maryland will be a state that “leaves no one behind,” reminding folks he knows what handcuffs on wrists feel like and will work to “change the inexcusable fact that Maryland incarcerates more Black boys than any other state” .As the ball bumped on and the waterfront was aglow in purple lights, the Baltimore that has been left behind went on with business as usual.
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