Hasta La Creative!

The Republican National Convention taking place this week at Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena is a world apart from the rest of Cleveland, even though it’s right downtown. Protesters have been instructed (via a permitting process) to use designated areas for their marches many blocks away from the Q, as locals call it, which means that protests aren’t falling on the deaf ears of the protestees (RNC delegates) — they just literally can’t be heard by the intended targets.

An exception for a good portion of Monday afternoon: a lone pro-Jesus, anti-Trump street preacher just outside the heavily secured entrance area of the Q on East 4th Street, aka Media Row — a one-block stretch where media organizations including MSBNC and The Washington Post have set up temporary outposts. The guy had a megaphone, which made him impossible to ignore, hard as everyone tried; he had disapproving things to say about the evils of homosexuality, Donald Trump’s pursuit of filthy lucre, and I’m not kidding, “fornication.” I suppose that since he was just one guy — not part of a potentially intimidating group of marchers — police let him be.

Lest visitors get the wrong idea about Cleveland, another guy silently standing behind the street preacher held up a sign that read “THIS HATE IS FROM OUT OF TOWN. CLEVELAND [HEART SYMBOL]’s.”

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