I am still trying to recover from what I witnessed during President Joe Biden’s visit to Livingston County on Oct. 5.
If you were not at the actual event, and only relied on our news media to give you a picture of the protest leading up to his arrival, you were clearly not given an accurate report of what was actually occurring (excluding The Livingston Post with a great article, and WHMI, which had a better article than most).
You would think the hundreds of Trump supporters were having a peaceful display of their opposition to Biden. That picture is farthest from the truth. I have never seen such hate, such vulgarity, such disregard for civility. The chanting of “F- Biden” was constant, and done with children in tow. The bull horns, the yelling, the complete and utter hate that was displayed is nothing I have ever seen before, and I hope never to again. The screaming of falsehoods, amongst the words of repent to us, were then followed immediately with another F-bomb.
How pathetically hypocritical this mob was.
I find myself changed after this. My optimism for a world of coming together is waning even farther away. I question if it is even possible now. I have always been one to see the good, either in a situation or a person, but I find myself struggling to see any good in the people that attended this event, and this makes me sad.
Maybe if the press actually presented the Oct. 5 “protest” as it actually was, maybe, just maybe, there would be some reflection, some change of thought that this is not how a human should behave. By not presenting the actual facts, the reporters are condoning the reprehensible behavior of that day, and are responsible for the utter disregard for respect of another human being, to happen again in the future.
What a shame.
Lori Cowan
Pinckney
