Jeff and Chris's Street Debate

During the day before Georgie's speech, I spent most of Thursday at Madison Square Garden (MSG) and walked the block with my sign along with many others. I talked to a number of people, and waved my sign at the buses hauling delegates to the RNC. It was tough. The cops wouldn't let anyone stand in a spot very long, so it was a matter of circling around the block to keep up the visibility.

I came across a tall young man (lets call him Jeff, I didn't get his name) who was debating with a blackman (call him Chris) who look like he's traveled a long hard road. It wasn't a debate about whether or not the GOP and this administration has been bad, it was about to what extreme things are going wrong.
The interaction was great, Chris had this sort of cadence delivery and the young man would take his point and push it further in sort of a group weltschmertz about the state of things. I started to record it. I was convinced the two new each other because they put their words together in a polished stream like they were on a stage, and they did it loud so everyone could hear it. I started shooting video, but didn't get much because a cop broke us up.
Here is the movie but its missing the good stuff :-(. Jeff is on the right, Chris is in the middle, another fellow heard what Jeff and Chris were saying and came over to talk to them.
http://www.skind.net/rnc04/thursdayevening/MVI_4571.avi

After the trooper broke this up. I walked with Jeff for a while and asked him if he knew Chris. He said he just walked by him on the street and heard Chris telling his story of tragic government as he walked the street, to everyone around him. Jeff decided he had to go talk to the guy.
Jeff just got off from his first day at a new job and came straight down to the convention. He said this was the shit he came here to see and was loving it. He flew in from Florida to NYC this week to protest at the convention, but he said there was something about the place and he couldn't leave. He sold his ticket home and got a job.

He's voting absentee in the Florida's presidential election.

Jeff, you rock!