Rallying Cry
“We’re here because there’s parents right now who can’t sing lullabies to their kids,” Lin-Manuel Miranda said. “We’re not going to stop until they can sing to their kids again.” She shared her remarks at the Nation’s capital.
Maxine Walters was very outspoken and seemed very emotional in her speech. T was surprising that she came out to speak after cancelling events after receiving threats.
“How dare you?” Waters said. “How dare you take the babies from mothers’ arms? How dare you take the children and send them all across the country into so-called detention centers? Donald Trump, you think you can get away with everything, but you have gone too far when you are trying to break up families in the way that you do.”
“As an African-American woman, I was raised on the stories about what happened on the auction block when they auctioned off Africans” she said.
Waters also addressed those that were making threats towards her life.
“If you shoot me, you better shoot straight,” Waters said. “There’s nothing like a wounded animal.”
Nevertheless it was likely that the marching wouldn’t be enough to deter the President from his mission.
It was also sad to know how dire the situation had become since immigration helped make America what it is.
