He’s walking every D.C. street while wearing a ‘Black and Brown Lives Matter’ sign. He’s also White and voted for Trump.
“I’ve never done any activism,” he explains. “I’ve never done anything where I’m breaking the rules or saying, ‘The status quo is not okay.’ I’ve always been one to fall in line.”
“I want to ensure this message is not forgotten by ANYONE!” he wrote. “As a middle-aged white guy, I can carry this message with little harassment, where others’ experience would be more difficult. If you are in D.C., I will eventually be walking by your place. If you struggle with this message we can talk.”
“If you check all those boxes, I am not the guy that would be walking a street,” he says. He considered wearing a hat with Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan on it during his walks to let people in on that part of his identity, but he decided against it. “It’s not who I am today. This tumultuous change that I have gone through and grown through has undercut and challenged every one of my identities, my primary identities. So, yeah, it’s been a legit upheaval.
A White woman was getting into her car, and looked at my sign and said, “yes, but you agree that there must be standards.” I didn't have a category for this statement, it left me speechless, and haunted me for the rest of the day.Three Latino guys were cleaning the gutters on the pinnacle of a large home and called out a thank you. I told the guy who was laying spread eagle on the roofline, forty feet in the air, he was far braver than I.
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