Public schools should be places of learning, not fear. Yet across the country, ICE enforcement near schools is traumatizing children and forcing districts to cancel classes just to keep students safe....

The title of my blog is Fresh Eyes - and that title represents an inner transformation, one that I believe can happen to anyone, any time. Somewhere in the early 2010's I found myself pondering the state of things in the world, as I often do, and wondering why there is so much distrust and conflict. I settled on the ideas related to personal bias, limited exposure to other cultures, lack of curiosity, fear of the 'other', and how those factors are overtly or covertly reinforced by our selected or default context - where we live, our social circles, who influences us, what institutions we belong to, what work we do, what education we have, etc.

Being a white person I have to recognize how further amped up I am about the MAGA fascists as a result of the murdering (assassinations, I think) of two folks in Minn - who happen to be white. I'm hoping more of the privileged demographic will become more and more uneasy with all this. More than uneasy - disgusted, frightened, angry, shocked.

The above image from 2025, courtesy of Freedom for All Americans So this fact has been verified and re-verified over the years. Surely the party of economic performance and low government spending and balanced budgets would not be in these lists??? From Politifact: According to the latest Census data, 9 of the 10 states with the lowest per-person income levels were Red: Mississippi, Arkansas, Idaho, West Virginia, Kentucky, Utah, Alabama, South Carolina and Oklahoma.  

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