Demonstration 20 March

 

        Gathering, protest, assembly, rally...whatever.

        Polis has proposed a $14 billion cut for public schools.

        So teachers are going down to the capital on Thursday to speak up.

        They're going to have to fight for a spot, there has been an ongoing protest down there since 21 January, 2025.

        The kids were asking me about it. I told them why, and they said another teacher told them he isn't going to the rally because he's Jamaican, and he doesn't want to be deported.

        I know this teacher by sight only, and he's young, from Chicago and in his first few years of teaching. He's been very kind to me since my dad died. I did hear him asking about taking a personal day for the rally in the copy room, but that's it.

        I do now know his sense of humor. He has to be joking, right?

        What if he isn't? What if this young twenty something teacher, who is clearly in this country legally, honestly believes he'll be scooped up and deported if he attends a rally?

        And this explains why we must all be allies for our immigrant, trans, gay, black and female friends. With the bombastic bastard and buddies in the white house, ignoring the judiciary and all checks and balances, we are actually scared. It's a different kind of fear. We have never felt it.

        We were not run down by the HUAC as commies.

        We were not hanged because of our skin color.

        We were not forced to wear a pink triangle or yellow star and pulled from our homes, split from our family and left to be murdered.

        Yet.

        Which is why we're so scared. This hazardous dimwit is hell bent on punishing every single American, relentlessly going after those who investigated them first, making sure to destroy any evidence, then recklessly wrecking balling the forest service. Seriously? That was the Red Herring? Then the feds, the Kennedy Center debacle, the DOE---all seeming distractions from his real agenda. Defunding USAID---which had a case against Fusk's Starlink---which has already killed people in need of medical care. Defunding USAID killed people, not Starlink. Yet.

        The behavior isn't that shocking, I've worked with narcissists. What's shocking is that A) Nobody is doing anything to stop him and B) his followers truly are brainwashed. I am hated because I am female, a teacher, an advocate of LGBTQ and I am not compliant by people I have never even met. At least buy me dinner first.

        They cannot justify his behavior, seem shocked that it is effecting them and still worship him like a fat golden calf. They weren't invited to any of his fancy victory parties in January, I saw interviews with Frumpers who actually said they weren't good enough to go to the parties...yet they still support him. Tone Deaf doesn't begin to explain it. 

        When I asked my students if they understood why teachers are marching, or that there have been daily protests every day for two months, they were clueless.

        So I asked "Why do you think you're not seeing any of these assemblies on the news?"

        Vacant shrugs.

        "And do you think Mr. J was serious about being deported?"

        "I'd be deported back to Jamaica..."

        I silently shake my head at them as they laugh.

        They have no idea. They aren't scared.

         Yet.