“Make America Great Again”, these 4 words have caused a lot of different emotional reactions over the years. When I first heard it (seems like a lifetime ago), my first thought was the great American Dream! A family owning a large home with a white picket fence, in a beautiful suburban neighborhood. I feel like that was early 80’s to me, or perhaps the 50’s to others. But it morphed into something more deceptive by the support it got. And if you think about it, it is deceptive, because it does not actually say what part of America it wants to make great again? Because even in the 80’s and 50’s racism in this country was still strong. It didn’t matter if you had that big beautiful home, if it’s not equal for everyone in this country, is the American Dream still great?

Those 4 little words are all perspective. What if you thought America was Great in the 1930’s when lynching was still legal in the south? Or 1944 during the war and the US tax rate was over 90%? It’s easy to sell an idea, when you give no viewpoint of what the idea entails. And you let the people come up with their own ideas of what it means. Looking at the majority of support, it felt like the idea most groups were pushing was an America of racial inequality. And that’s why those 4 little words had brought about so much turmoil.

This particular art pushes a different perspective. What if the early American Indian, had pushed that idea on to the first settlers of America. Making America Great Again, by pushing out the European settlers from American Indians Lands. Which history shows happened the other way around, but this art shows how perceptive is everything.