we march

‘We The Peo­ple’ yes­ter­day wit­nessed mil­lions of young peo­ple world­wide, many the ex­act age of some of our rev­o­lu­tion­ary fore­fa­thers and as young as 9, de­mand­ing a bet­ter world, a kinder world. They stood in sol­i­dar­i­ty, de­mand­ing change.

Over 800 events were tak­ing place around the world. Mil­lions of kids and teens are tak­ing a stand against what we adults haven’t had the courage to deal with. Un­less Trump man­ages to get us all killed in a nu­clear war, there will be a ma­jor par­a­digm shift in pol­i­tics over the next 4–8 years.

I am struck by the sound of the crowd. It sound­ed dif­fer­ent than most protests, a high­er pitch, and I re­al­ized it was be­cause there are thou­sands of kids yelling, some whose voic­es haven’t yet changed be­cause they are so young. It sounds like a ju­nior high school rally. 

Think about that.

Mar­tin Luther King’s 9 year old grand-daugh­ter, Yolan­da Re­nee King, af­ter quot­ing her grandfather’s dream to mil­lions around the world, said she has a dream,
“Enough is enough!”

I don’t know if it was in­ten­tion­al but the up­per arm of the “S” re­sem­bles a gun bar­rel point­ing at the heads, I no­ticed it when one of the kids blocked the low­er part stand­ing up, af­ter she threw up on in­ter­na­tion­al TV. She then yelled, “I just threw up on na­tion­al TV, and it feels great!”

I lis­tened to a 12 year old kid elo­quent­ly state her fears and de­mands. These kids are scared to go to school, scared to have a nor­mal life, scared they will die at any time. 

We did this, we adults sat back and let a gun safe­ty or­ga­ni­za­tion turn into a huge po­lit­i­cal pow­er. We al­lowed states to have their own con­trol or lack of con­trol over guns. For what? Just so some south­ern red­neck can play with a lethal weapon and tear up wa­ter­mel­ons and targets?

As I watch a sev­en­teen year old from South LA talk­ing about los­ing her broth­er to gun vi­o­lence and speak about the nor­mal­iza­tion of gun vi­o­lence, tears come. When she speaks about learn­ing to duck from gun­fire be­fore she learned to read, my heart hurts. When I see pro­tes­tors with tears flow­ing I won­der, where the hell did this all go so wrong?

Nao­mi Wadler, an 11 year old child was on stage speak­ing to mil­lions around the world about gun vi­o­lence. 11 years old! This child, this lit­tle kid, who prob­a­bly still sleeps with a stuffed an­i­mal and watch­es “My Lit­tle Pony”, has more courage and grace than most adults. 

11 years old, what were you do­ing at 11?

 

—Louis Warfield

Flom­mist Louis Warfield is a fab­ri­ca­tion spe­cial­ist who runs the award-win­ning Rhi­no De­sign Stu­dio, “You dream it, we’ll build it.” Copy­right © 2018 Louis Warfield. Top pho­to by flom­mist Glen­da Gil in San Fran­cis­co. Ad­di­tion­al fo­tos from Rolling Stone and the in­ter­webs.

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