Al Sharpton came to Pilgrim’s Rest Baptist Church in Phoenix today to beef up an already incredibly vibrant activist community that supports comprehensive immigration reform. You can read about his visit here.
What you won’t read about is the little lady with the straw hat. She stood outside the church, part of a very small (less than a dozen) gaggle of supporters showing their approval of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The little lady wore a pink shirt and baggy slacks and multi-toned (brown, grey, black, white?) walking shoes. She looked like a grandmother a la Ozzie and Harriet.
She told me she helped support a “colony of cats” in her neighborhood. She said the thirty-four or so cats had been trapped and neutered and released back into her neighborhood. She explained that if she were to insert another bunch of cats into the established colony of neutered cats, there would be “chaos.”
And that hypothetical cat-chaos scenario is emblematic of what happens in the USA when unauthorized immigrants enter the country, she confided.
“Write that down,” she said.
So I did.
The way you get the telling details is wonderful. Nothing like an analogy to help readers make sense of complex issues!