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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat I learned at the Farmers Market today...........
I had my mom sit at a picnic bench, while I took some things to the car. Across from the bench was a husband and wife, in their early '70's. I had on a political button, it's pink and states Solidarity and Women's Rights. Mom's button she was wearing, has Rosie the Riveter and states "I am woman and I vote." When I returned to collect my mom, the man looked at me & the pin (I began to cringe, because of what I expected to hear). But I didn't hear that, the man said "I paraded in Chicago, in the '70's for womens rights." He further added that he didn't understand why the ERA wasn't law by now.
We talked for a few minutes, learned he was a union stalwart, and Obama was getting his vote. The President was in town last week, I told the man I had gone to see him. Both he and his wife got the biggest smiles, which got even bigger when I showed them the pictures I had taken on Friday.
What I learned, what you expect, is often not what you get.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)I remember those pictures! They were fabulous. Lucky you, being so close, and with a telephoto lens yet!
It's good when we can enter a conversation and not expect anything. You allow magic to happen when you can do that!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)Especially since the advent of the bacon milkshake.
Warpy
(110,900 posts)and anybody who looks at my flab and white hair and thinks "Republican" is in for quite a shock.
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)I may look old and grey but do not assume that I belong to the Klan. I am their worst nightmare! An old fart that thinks.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)I was calling representatives in state legislatures the last time the ERA was up.
That was in the old days of dialling phones by hand.
Back then the Republicans claimed passing the ERA would mean women and men would have to use the same public restrooms.
I really hate those bastards....