Trump Tower Protest – 8.14.17
I was in the middle of writing this post when Trump just gave a press conference where he defended neo-Nazis live on TV. I don’t even know how to fucking deal with that. I was already sick to my stomach after watching the Vice story on Charlottesville and the past few days have had me in just constant depression. All I can do is read about this shit and it’s fucking up my mental health. Honestly.
I was so fucking depressed yesterday so I decided to do something with that and go protest Trump at Trump Tower. It was his first trip back since his January 20th when he was sworn in. There would have been a protest anyway but after Charlottesville it was a completely different mood.
I got there a bit late and it was already dark. I made it about a block from Trump Tower and joined a pen of protesters. I brought my camera but I wasn’t really working. I just figured I should take a couple photos because that’s all I know how to do. There were a lot of people there but it was sort of anti-climatic. I was in a group with a bunch of people with drums singing silly chants about love trumping hate. I have too much anger for that shit. New York Hates You and Fuck Trump were the only chants I could bring myself to join in on.
I need to do more. I have used my platform to talk about this shit but that’s not enough. I wrote about my white privilege for 2000 Words yesterday and made a donation to a tattoo shop that is covering up white power and gang tattoos for people who have turned their lives around. The non-profit I run is non-political but we are making a donation to Life After Hate, an organization that tries to get people to leave a life of white supremacy behind. I listened to a Podcast with the former white power skinhead who runs it and I knew I wanted to do something to help him.
I still don’t really know what to do about any of this, but I need to do something. I need to be more involved. I hope if nothing else this week inspires more people to get involved in activism and fight these Nazi scum one way or another.
Look, these photos aren’t very good. They are mostly just photos of signs, but they are at least an excuse to do a post about this and use this blog to get some of this shit off my chest and maybe get a couple of you to do something to, whatever that may be.
Click here to see my photos from last night’s Trump Tower protest.
He wasn’t defending neo-Nazis at all. He was condemning the violence of Antifa.
I just red your tweets on the Juggalo March. Had no idea and will go out to support them.
@Paul riiight.
You gonna attend and/or cover the Juggalo March?
He never defended neo-nazis. He condemned all violence from every side, INCLUDING yes, left wing violence and communists beating the shit out of people for the crime of supporting a political candidate. Also, white privilege doesn’t exist, cuck.
Snowflake.
@Triggered – have you looked at the rest of my website? Pretty sure cuck is the wrong insult for me. And saying that white privilege doesn’t exist is the most privileged thing you can fucking say and it’s pretty funny you calling me a snowflake when you are on my blog getting all upset with my post. Sorry this isn’t a safe space for you.
@Longtime Fan – yup