Proclamations

We live in a day and age where tee-shirts and

ball caps are all the rage. The place you vaca-

tioned years ago, your favorite team, player

and logo, a product slogan, some obnoxious

and ridiculous saying, all silkscreen imprinted

front and back for the world to see. Not me. I

shall not advertise my social, political or per-

sonal preferences. I refuse to display on my

person some wealthy professional sport’s figure

name. I would be ashamed to don a ball cap which

proclaims, “Make America Great Again,” as the

idiot who made that a slogan a touchstone for his

repugnant campaign has neglected to realize and

relate that all the attributes of our already great

country was never lost or relinquished in the first

place. No, those mobile billboards of ignorance

and personal preference shall never work their way

into the wardrobe I choose to wear each day. Were

I to select something, however, that one thing I

should feel least embarrassed to exhibit publically,

it might be the word, “Nuts!” Others may then have

their opinion about my intentions to relate—Is it

pistachio, pecan, perhaps cashew he promotes or is

his a broad, sweeping social outcry covering a

poignant proclamation of disdain due to the course

taken in our democratic society today? “Bullshit”

may be a more descriptive and emphatic declaration,

but certainly not appropriate for children under the

age of eight.

Chris Hanch 8-21-17