My most recent protest sign:
on one side: WE THE PEOPLE REFUSE TO BE THE MILITARY’S FUCKING TRAINING GROUND
on the other side: MILITARY: TRAIN AT THE WHITE HOUSE
I stood on the busy corner of College & Ashby Aves this afternoon, holding up this sign at the traffic light. The responses to both sides of my sign were all positive: honks, waves, thumbs up, and even several “I’m with you” and other statements of concurrence from passersby.
One old white man muttered “nice language” to which I enthusiastically replied “right, do you believe the president said this?”
Walking back to the laundry mat, a grizzled white homeless man, who had been incoherently shouting “why are people so cruel?” when I first passed, this time he looked me in the eye and declared “I think I’ve been the training ground for the military already.”
I expressed how sorry this happened to him, as I walked on by, acknowledging the truth in what he coherently said.
