What it took to get this white moderate off the sidelines
My First Protest
What it took to get this white moderate off the sidelines
Protesters
gather to denounce President Donald Trump during a “No Kings” rally in
Miller Place, New York (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz).
“Tall, white, moderate guys like you need to do more!” My wife and I have had our share of fights. But this was the first time she was mad at me for my politics. About a week before the latest “No Kings” protest, she was mad that I wasn’t angry enough about the state of our country. “I am angry about it,” I pleaded. “And I have been for ten years, and back in 2016 I blogged about it all the time, and even placed a major op-ed right before the election.” “We’ve had enough op-eds,” she persisted. When I asked what someone like me could do—a mild-mannered humanities professor in the suburbs—she pressed me to figure out which issue is making me mad enough that I would join the protest.
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