Letter From DC: Goodbye to John Wall, Hello to Celebrating His Rebel Spirit

As the summer is over, in the masks, the boundless ice bandits and the police of the National Guard from the Red State, which passes unnaturally quiet Washington, the District of Columbia. Five years ago, the city was different. Following the murder of George Floida police in 2020, massive multiple demonstrations filled the streets. Although these protests were constant, we must remember this week. It started downtown at the Capitolian According to the Wizards Captain John Wall.

On August 19, Walla quietly left the NBA after an 11-year career. The injuries were dramatically reduced by the Prime Minister of the short wall, but for several seasons he seized the fantasy of Washington, the District of Colombia.

Basketball is a way of life in the DC, Maryland and Virginia. There is even a documentary local product Kevin Durant Basketball District: In the water About the incredible percentage of the pros that come from these parts. Even the NBA average team would be obsession here. Instead, DC has magicians. The last time they won the championship, Jimmy Carter was the most powerful man on earth. The last time they won 50 games, et still had to call home. And yet it was this moment when it looked as if John Walls would use all unused basketball electricity and conduct the magicians somewhere special.

DC loved Wall, and not only because of its Quicksilver Quicksilver game, rewarded, and 360-degree, open floor. It was not even because Wall poured money into insufficient communities and seemed to really work with children. It was a wall of the wall torn from poverty and mass imprisonment system. He was raised by his mother Francis Pool, who worked on several works to educate him and two sisters. His reality and authenticity-utter in today’s springs, learning in the media, where everyone wants to be influenced, but little can tell him a star in school yards all over the city. White sports radio scold like Colin Coerd The reaction of the reactionary garbageIncluding an argument that Walls was imprisoned since Wall’s father could not be trusted as a “leader”. Racism and cool contempt, which the wall faces conservative commentators, has more associated it with the DC community. In the final exhibition of respect, his two -storey fresco was depicted on the side of Chile Ben’s legendary bowl. In 2020, it was John Wola.

Then Wall, in the midst of his cultural influence in the city, decided that he would take the megaphone and lead this March. John Wall is now missed, and not because magicians are likely to be terrible again. We miss him, and people like him as he, because Mayor DC, Michael Bloomberg Acolite Muriel Bowzer, confronts. After the 2024 elections, the bowzer made every effort to show Trump administration that she would not be thorough in his side. The president even supplemented her on July 8 for Relationships she built With his Chief of Staff Susie Wilz. He praised their conversations about “testing” in DC. At the time, it’s little attention. This should be revised to ask if the Bowzer knew what the activity would happen and what it did for the city’s preparation.

Centrists still don’t understand what Trump’s administration has Only if -no interpreted as a weakness. A bowzer who is engaged now claims what Trump is doing not ‘federal absorption“But rather” a surge of law enforcement. “This is not completely related to the depression, anger and fear so much of the city. Speaking this week“Stop attacking our cities to hide the failures of your administration.” Bowzer is likely to say that the worst part of the checkpoints that require people is that they will extend the trip time.

Bowzer is not going to save this city, and John Wall no longer lives here. But residents of permanent current do not expect boundless politicians and cultural icons. We start seeing performances, great outdoor press conferences, improvised anti-Forest demonstrations The wildest dreams of haryta. Free Permanent currentand Let the living movement of Gogh. Many people who make up the heart and spine of these organizations also march, fall into the head and shot with rubber bullets in 2020. There is continuity here, and this is the biggest hope in DC: they know each other, they trust each other and they are not going to go out.

On Thursday night, when Donald Trump was leaving the White House to show the media of the occupied permanent current, which bent to his will, the streets flourished just a few miles from a demonstration against the occupation that doubled as a music concert. In DC, on the drums lying in the mountains, a long soundtrack of movements against the hunting and movement, and on Thursday night they were called to resist the tyranny of occupation and vulgar, violent efforts by Trump to draw on the city’s life. The regime wants to duplicate the occupation of permanent current in cities across the country. People fighting for free permanent current hope that what is repeated is their refusal to remain silent.