Marching For Our Immigrants

Marching For Our Immigrants
PHL Airport
Philadelphia, PA
January 29, 2017


I marched in Washington, DC last week in the Women's March and that moment was joyful, hopeful  and filled with good will.  It was a high.  After 10 dreadful weeks after our disastrous election, I finally found my voice again.  I was surrounded by like-minded people who said, "ENOUGH, we aren't going to take it anymore."

But then just a week later, the idiot passes a ban on immigration for some people from certain countries.  So I find myself at the Philadelphia airport, along with 5,000 other people, to protest yet again.  But this time, it was different.  There was no joy here today.  I only felt fear.  Unlike the Women's March, which was dominated by black and white women, I saw men and women of every race, color, country, religion, ethic group.  I spoke to citizens whose families could be or would be affected by this ban.  I saw a large Jewish presence which shoveled a message. of the hateful Hitler and the Holocaust, in our faces.

I saw an America that I did not recognize.