Photographic Interpretations

e·ro·sion - the gradual destruction or diminution of something Currently there is organized conservative attack on the rights of women in tis country. When Trump basically stole the election in 2016, he set into motion his plan to reverse any intelligent, thoughtful and remotely progressive laws that this country has built in the last 50 years. When the Republicans illegally blocked President Obama's choice for Supreme Court, Merrick Garland to replace conservative Antonin Scalia, this set the wheels of extreme conservatism into motion. Since then the court has been swung to a 5-4 conservative court with no one in the middle ground. The Republican plan to reshape the laws of this land in it's extremely conservative image is moving unimpededly forward. When these new justices where under oath in a Congressional hearing, they all spoke of not overturning existing law that has come in front of the courts before them. But as recently as this month the courts just reve...

In 2017, hate crimes rose over 12% from the previous year. And this year the data shows that these crimes will rise greatly once again. Emboldened by Trump's hate speech and rhetoric, these low life xenophiles have now become more brazen and taken their once hidden, dark coroner of the internet ugliness and become mainstream and "accepted" by the rest of the Republican establishment. With his blatant lies and fear mongering about minorities, migrants and people of different faiths and sexual orientation, Trump has legitimized the white supremacists. All for votes. All to activate these groups to keep the Republican party in control of the House and Senate. With this control, they are trying to disenfranchise the minorities in this country that have made America the country of diverse thought. Diverse in arts, culture, science and technology. Roped in with the extreme radical right are the Christian Conservatives who have turned a blind eye to the hate and...

I was born in the early 60s. A pre-teen during the Vietnam Conflict and really didn't understand or remember exactly what was going on. I do remember a denim jacket I had with a bunch of patches. One patch in particular along side my Apollo 11 mission  patch was a patch that said, "Make Love Not War". And even at the ripe age of 7, this made sense to me. Then, in high school, I think it was 1979 there was a KKK rally right in front of the school, in New Jersey! Now our high school was an inner city, mixed race school but the KKK, in NJ?? This really blew me away, that in 1979 people were still so backwards and not tolerant of others. Almost 20 years went by and in 1997, I lived in Greensburg, PA, a quiet eastern suburb of Pittsburgh. One day I was walking by the County Capital building and again I was shocked to see another KKK rally. (Some of the photos I took that day are included in this post.) It was almost the millennium, and these hate mongers wher...