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riversedge

(69,708 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:02 AM Jun 2018

Trump shamed with Father's Day protest for tearing apart immigrant families

I do not think soul-less Trump could feel shame but this is an interesting story


Trump shamed with Father’s Day protest for tearing apart immigrant families



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/trump-shamed-fathers-day-protest-tearing-apart-immigrant-families/

18 Jun 2018 at 11:45 ET



Protesting outside Trump Tower (Photo by Jamara Wakefield)


If I get arrested, will they take my baby? I looked at the cops guarding Trump Tower, lifted my sign that read, “Imagine Your Child Being Ripped from Your Arms” and marched in front of its doors. Tourists stared. A red-faced man, rushed at me.

It was my first Father’s Day. My son was twelve weeks old. I loved him like found treasure. Every morning, he smiled at me. I kissed his belly and he giggled. I tickled his feet and held him. During feedings, I read about refugees at the Mexican-U.S. border, where nearly 2,000 children were stripped from their parents. What if that was me? What if burly uniformed men, packing guns, took my son from my arms?


I’d explode. I’d be a stick of walking dynamite. I’d want to kill until he was in my arms again. I never felt murderous rage until I realized my child could be taken from me. I did not know how dangerous love was until I held my baby.

Reading the news of the families, pulled apart like taffy, I knew my rage was a privileged rage. The mothers and fathers, held in detention centers had to swallow it in order to figure out U.S. bureaucracy and get their kids back. I saw so deep grief on their faces and felt their panic in my chest, parent to parent.

Father’s Day was coming and I planned to protest the man who destroyed these families. The one and only, Donald Trump, who for my whole life in New York, hovered over the city like it was a giant Monopoly game. I hated him, then. I hated him more as president; who acted as if America was one of his hotels. Since immigrants couldn’t pay the toll, off to jail, they and their children went. No pass.

I lifted my son, put him into our Baby Bjorn and picked up the sign that read, “Imagine Your Child Being Ripped from Your Arms.” On the subway, my partner calmed our baby. I asked had her permission to do this protest. Some Trump voters see him as they Second Coming of George Washington. They could attack me..........................








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Justice Alliance (Indivisible SAZ) @Indivisible_SAZ
Jun 14

It is 102°F at 5 pm in Tucson, but hundreds of people have turned out to demand the end of separation of families at the border.
#FreeTheChildren #FamiliesBelongTogether

@maddow
@IndivisibleTeam


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Trump shamed with Father's Day protest for tearing apart immigrant families (Original Post) riversedge Jun 2018 OP
Follow up Tweet: Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #1
I'd like a sign that reads ... Trump is an Asshole. lpbk2713 Jun 2018 #2
I'm not sure that word is strong enough sharedvalues Jun 2018 #3
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