June 25, 1968
by Janine Stephenson
The only thing we could see for miles were the white buildings. Everything here is white. It looks Roman, I think, and Craig says that's the point. Everything is based on something else, only we call it our own.
The area around all the white buildings is despicable. Poor, run-down, they are still recovering from the April riots. Baby John said it was 'deplorable.'
How can human beings live like that? How can we stand by and allow people in our own country to live like that? We watched a couched being dumped out of third story windows. The tenements are beaten down and the residents are beaten up. Baby John says that it's like that in every city, not just D.C. Maybe it's just me, but the irony of seeing the God-forsaken surrounding all those white buildings is just too much. Symptomatic of what's wrong with the country.
If more people saw what we did, then they'd understand. Too bad that will never happen. As soon as we got to Virginia, we kept hearing people say things like, "Those people like living that way."
That's just not logical, though it is certainly Darwinian.
