{"id":4792,"date":"2020-06-03T06:29:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T12:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2025-08-03T04:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T10:35:44","slug":"out-of-the-schools-and-into-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/03\/out-of-the-schools-and-into-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"“Out of the schools and into the streets”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Sunday afternoon a comrade in the effort to change the name of our neighborhood<\/a> posted the following regarding George Floyd and so many others:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those of you with kids, I thought you might want to know about this peaceful protest happening at Central Park on June 6th 9:00am<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not knowing the neighbor who organized this protest, I thought the image that accompanied the announcement was a little tone deaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Turns out the event, Show Up for Black Lives, was organized by the mom in this photo. She’d been so impelled by the protests in Denver she hadn’t changed her profile photo to reflect her cause. She did so later, obviously having received some feedback. And she wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never imagined the interest in my post would be so great. I wanted to do more to involve and show up with my kids, and I figured like 10 people MAX would come with us, we\u2019d exchange numbers, and we\u2019d maybe do a book club and talk about how to begin dismantling racism within ourselves and I’d have some new friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I didn’t visit the event post on Facebook, so I didn’t see that (if it would have been there when I learned about the event). I held my tongue for several hours, but finally on Monday morning I thought I’d reminisce to fellow name-changers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey all. I told my wife @Andrea Carney about [the following last night] and had kept myself from sharing it because it\u2019s sorta off topic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 8, 1972 Nixon or his lackeys mined the port of Haiphong. CU students got word and began marching, which led to their shutdown of the Denver-Boulder turnpike amongst other things.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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