...as did many thousands of people all over the country, to protest the current Administration. Here are a few specimens of my characteristically abysmal photojournalism. Please excuse some of the coarse, if understandable, language; in one sign Our Current President is called by a word far too nice for him...
On a crowded bus on the way home, an elderly Native American man in a big cowboy hat cleared his stuff off the seat next to him and kindly offered it to me. I thanked him and sat. The bus was crammed with returning protestors carrying signs.
"What's going on?" the man, Christopher by name, asked me.
"There was a big protest at the State Capitol."
"Oh. What were they protesting?"
"[The President]."
"If you want to protest [The President], don't do it," said Christopher. "The people elected him. I'm not a Republican; I'm not a Democrat. But Biden slept on the beach, and let everybody in at the border. Terrorists, murderers, rapists. You want a rapist living next door to you?"
"No I don't," I said.
"[The President] is doing something good," he said.
"What part of town do you live in, Christopher?"
"Downtown. I pay my rent."
"Do you have kids?"
"I have a son. He's in the 101st Airborne."
"You must be proud."
"I'm not proud. I didn't do anything. I don't even have a home."
Indeed, he was wearing several layers of clothes on a warm day, and seemed to have a lot of his belongings with him. He looked homeless, at that.
"Well, you said you pay rent."
"Hotel. Does that count?"
Christopher told me he was a Chiricahua Apache from San Carlos who had moved to Phoenix after his wife passed on. He reiterated, several times, that Biden had "slept on the beach" while murderous, rape-minded hordes had overrun our society from the south. An internet search suggests that this refers to footage that showed up in the media last August, which I had somehow missed, of Biden committing the grievous sin of snoozing on Rehoboth Beach in Delaware with his wife.
Reminding me repeatedly that he was neither a Republican nor a Democrat, Christopher, who declined my request to photograph him, again assured me that the current President "is doing something good."
I remain unconvinced, but he seemed like a nice man.
