A MESSAGE FROM SHERREE LOWE
Florida JAILer-In-Chief
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I never was a leader. I was a follower -- until I learned that everyone is looking for someone else to follow, model themselves after, or learn from. One day, it hit me that I was looking for something I would never find. I would have to step out front, take a deep breath, square my shoulders, and be prepared to be knocked on my backside!
Sometimes my insides would twist up into knots, and I would shake inside and feel sick as I set up my picket signs and table and passed out flyers in front of the courthouses. I just knew I would be arrested. Every time I walked into one of the courtrooms and sat down to watch the cases being paraded before the bench, I would get spasms in my stomach, but I stayed.
Then, a strange thing happened. Soon the judges were looking at me and making statements like, "I want to make sure that no one's rights get violated here today," and they would look directly at me. I would just go about my business, handing out flyers, and carrying my protest signs, sitting quietly in the courtrooms, holding my Bible in my hands, looking right at the judge. You have no idea how that unnerves them!
When I protest, I wear my J.A.I.L. T-shirt. In the courtroom, I wear a suit, or dress in a respectful business fashion. They don't know why you are there until all the cases are gone and you are still sitting there. Then someone, or the judge will say, "Did we miss a case?" And if they ask me why I am there, I hold up the Bible, and say, "I am a court watcher." That really unravels them, because it makes them think beyond the established script they operate under.
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