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Pierce: This Was Bigger Than All of Us
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a52451/womens-march-recap/?src=socialflowTWA long, beautiful Saturday at the Women's March on Washington
So that was pretty much my day—a happy little parade deep within a massive march that was only one of hundreds of massive marches on every continent on the planet. (Yes, they were marching in Antarctica, and not just penguins, either.) I have a feeling that this was a phenomenon felt by most people. The event was too overwhelming for any one person to take it in whole. You found your own little group, or you brought it with you, or you organized your own little parade within the event, and that was the way you made it your own...
Because an event like this is a living, breathing organism that creates its own environment, you can lose touch with what's going on in the rest of the world, although social media has tempered that phenomenon considerably. There were reports from marches in New York and Boston, and in Los Angeles and Denver. Two young women, recent grads from the University of Alabama, which you could tell by the houndstooth scarves with which they brought the spirit of the late Bear Bryant to the march, said they were hearing from friends who were marching in Birmingham and Mobile. A woman from Pittsburgh held a sign saying, "Trump Believes Franco Dropped The Ball," an obscure reference to a famous play from a 1972 NFL playoff game that has become iconic among Steelers fans. She had been talking to people in that city who were marching across bridges...
So I sat on my bench under Rawlins' statue and I noticed that the police had walled off the intersection of 18th and E Street. People leaving the march had been beached temporarily on all four corners of the intersection, and the police were being very brusque toward anyone who tried to cross. From down E Street, the moan of sirens began and swelled as it came toward the little park where I was sitting. Two big black SUV's came through, followed by the familiar limousine with American flags on the fenders and the seal on the driver's side door. The people stranded at the intersection hooted and hollered. Birds were thrown vigorously. The President of the United States looked to be passing by, and it was a small and insignificant passing on this day in Washington.
Because an event like this is a living, breathing organism that creates its own environment, you can lose touch with what's going on in the rest of the world, although social media has tempered that phenomenon considerably. There were reports from marches in New York and Boston, and in Los Angeles and Denver. Two young women, recent grads from the University of Alabama, which you could tell by the houndstooth scarves with which they brought the spirit of the late Bear Bryant to the march, said they were hearing from friends who were marching in Birmingham and Mobile. A woman from Pittsburgh held a sign saying, "Trump Believes Franco Dropped The Ball," an obscure reference to a famous play from a 1972 NFL playoff game that has become iconic among Steelers fans. She had been talking to people in that city who were marching across bridges...
So I sat on my bench under Rawlins' statue and I noticed that the police had walled off the intersection of 18th and E Street. People leaving the march had been beached temporarily on all four corners of the intersection, and the police were being very brusque toward anyone who tried to cross. From down E Street, the moan of sirens began and swelled as it came toward the little park where I was sitting. Two big black SUV's came through, followed by the familiar limousine with American flags on the fenders and the seal on the driver's side door. The people stranded at the intersection hooted and hollered. Birds were thrown vigorously. The President of the United States looked to be passing by, and it was a small and insignificant passing on this day in Washington.
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