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Sometimes a protest isn’t a march, a sit-in, or shouting; sometimes it’s just a piece of cardboard with some words scrawled on it stuck to a fence.
And sometimes it’s thousands of signs stuck to a fence that the Racist-In-Chief had built between himself and America.
After cowering in the bunker because people were yelling outside the White House, and after spraying those people with tear gas and rubber bullets for a photo op, the entrances to Pennsylvania Avenue and E Street NW, the Ellipse, and Lafayette Square are barricaded by nearly two miles of mesh metal fences. And now those fences are the perfect spot for protest signs and artwork and … shouting:
“This is what democracy looks like.”
But really, this fence, bearing the words and tears of the people who are tired of what America means to the black community, is what democracy looks like.
It started small; Kai Gamanya hung a painting featuring his take on the raised fist widely associated with the Black Panther Party. Gamanya, a surgical technician, hopes to see the all filled with signs and flowers and hope:
“It’s like the whole nation is crying, and this whole fence is crying, and if you were to back up and see it from beginning to end, it’s nothing but posters from all the way down.”
The nation is shouting.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020
A Wall of Protests
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That is so fabulous! The perfect response to the fence. Haven't seen THIS reported on any news channel. Thank you, Bob!
ReplyDeleteWhat I find real funny is after he made cuts to many liberal arts programs in the first two yeas affecting museums and symphonies and other arts....he has unwittingly created this exhibit of art!!!!!!! I hope it gets so much art and messages on it it blocks out the whole white house. An exhibit with meaning!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI heard The Smithsonian was collecting
ReplyDeletesome of the art.
take care, xoxo :-)
I thought the wall a great idea; shame the other two fences can't be covered with this kind of artwork.
ReplyDeleteI was reading an article in Wapo to the effect that the Bully-in-Chief, who was bullied by daddy, has a real bully for his Bully General. Little Billy Barr was practising for his current job way back in school along with his bully brothers...families like that need the parents taken away from the kids.
I like the idea of walling in Covid-45. Can someone cut off his wifi connection while they're at it.
ReplyDeleteVox Populi!
ReplyDeleteThe People Spoke....
ReplyDeleteIts a great display of Freedom.... !!!!!!!!!!!
today they took the fence down.
ReplyDeleteand WTF are the people of SC voting for miss lindseybell AGAIN!!!!! idiots!
I love that people are retaking that wall, too.
ReplyDeletePoor IMPOTUS. Nothing he does works. *cackle*
XOXO
Loved this!
ReplyDeleteOh, the satisfaction of knowing for sure that every day he'll be spluttering with rage, his orange face having turned to purple. And to think with such delicious irony he'll be gasping those sacred words "I can't BREATHE!" - to which we can all rejoin "GOOD!" - and, with a further bit of luck, going into a terminal fit. Schadenfreude would never have known such a welcome!
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