So, How Much Sanity Was There in D.C. Yesterday? (Updated)
Hello. I am 56 years old and Black. I attended the rally to Restore Sanity. I did not know there would be performers or music – I knew there would be comedy – but the political message delivered by Jon Stewart is the reason I wnet and took my family with me. I am handicapped, and it was not easy to get there.
Next to me was a family (4) from Chicago, a mother from New Hampshire, and her son from Massachusetts. Also a disabled Viet Nam vet (Marine) from Idaho.
On the Metro (which I rode at 10 am, and then at 5 pm) there were people from Kentucky, Minneapolis, and North Carolina and Florida.
I drove 4 hours to go to Washington, AND paid for a hotel room. No one paid me or gave me anything to go. Tha family from Chicago paid for hotel and airline tickets.
It took 8 subway trains before I could get on from the Grosveenor stations, and 16 before I could leave from the Smithsonian. 7 more from Metro station.
I went to this rally to see if there were more people like me, normal, average, politically aware voters/ And yes, I saw them all around the mall.
PS I picked up my own trash, and every half hour on the hour volunteers wearing blue t shirts went around with a trash bag AND a recycle bag.
If you weren’t there, don’t bother commenting.
