District 54 Schoolhouse, Viking Trail
Fergus Falls Minnesota, July 2023
There’s a lot about this country that unequivocally needs to be relegated to the past; such as discrimination against racial minorities and LGBT+ people, the oppression of women, etc. Yet there are institutions, individuals, interest groups, political parties and lobbies working hard to make America's past come back again while trying equally hard to keep an honest and actual working knowledge of that history in the dark. But I won’t concede to deliberately repeating the mistakes of our past. Will you? I vehemently reject the term “woke” as a pejorative because I understand it in its original context -- awake to the inequalities, abuses and overall exploitation of a system supposedly meant to uphold the virtues of freedom and equality. I will keep pursuing the untold and omitted histories (and acknowledge their through lines to the present) of those who participate/d so monumentally in breathing life into the complex tapestry of this nation despite having the odds deliberately stacked against them.
This is July 4th, 2023!
