As estimated 6,000 people gathered at Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville for the Oct. 18 No Kings rally. The event featured multiple speakers, musical performances and a march through downtown.
“There are some of those who call this gathering anti-American,” said speaker Molly Zenker, a registered nurse and Mission Nurses United representative. “But I think this may be about the most American thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
Zenker went on to state: “The current administration wants us to live in fear, to stay divided, to hate those that don’t fit in a mythical standard of what is ‘normal.’ If there is anyone fit to tell you … that no one is ‘normal’ — it’s a nurse. We care for people when they are at their most desperate, most vulnerable … no matter what language they speak, what country they happened to have been born in or what religion they follow. A nurse works to build that person up. Personally, I think our government could learn something from us.”…