2/25/20

By Charlene Frank

45th Day of Witnessing at the Border

Today was my first day to #WitnessAtTheAirport. Today I ask you to join us not because the rewards you receive are greater than what you give, which they are, but because what I saw at the airport was so chilling, and so frightening that I have lost my smile. I hope that I will find it again when I cross the Rio Grande and see the children today.
Early this morning my condo-mate and new friend Lee Goodman woke me up to go to the airport. I knew what we were going to see, I knew it would make me think of Jews being loaded into cattlecars, I knew this. I was correct, but the full weight of those feelings didn't manifest until a couple of hours later when I sat down and blocked myself off from the people around me. The weight I feel from this makes it difficult to breathe. I don't feel like I need to cry, it’s just blankness. Even when I am doing something else it doesn't matter because I am blank. They are inside me. The people in shackles. They are the same as the people of my grandparents generation and WE are the villains! America, my country, the land of my birth is the villain. I am numb. It is happening here.
Now I ask you to join us as patriots! Join us as people who believe that we need to remain the land of the free! #JoinUs
#MakeADifference #EndMPP #WitnessAtTheBorder