At least five friends/colleagues – people I more than know by name, people whose children know me, whom I see every day – were arrested at the Senate building this morning for a peaceful sing-in for DACA. They went to protest because they are Jewish.They went to protest because it’s what’s right.
A 66-year-old Jewish man holding his hands out proudly, defiantly for the zip-ties is not an image I thought I’d have to process in the modern world. Two Holocaust survivors being dragged out of a pristine marble rotunda in their winter coats because they want to stop people being deported is a real thing I saw today. A colleague (who despises being thought of as tiny) sat firmly and sang “We Will Not Be Moved” and it took two full-size Senate policemen to drag her, sitting, legs straight out, in her fur-collared coat, backward. She weighs about a hundred and fifteen pounds. I hope she was heavy as lead. Heavy as hell to them, and not to be moved.
They were singing. They were praying. They were studying Torah together. The police hauled, cajoled, bullied, and dragged them away from a space in which they were interacting peacefully. This has all happened before. We keep telling you it’s happened before.
This is what people call bad optics. I know the world is watching. I keep waiting for the world to DO something.
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