Abolition is American
Undeniably American exists to reclaim the radical, unfinished spirit of America by grounding it in abolitionist history, moral clarity, and creative defiance. Through illustration, language, and historical memory, this work draws directly from the antebellum abolitionist mentality—a tradition that understood injustice is not reformed politely, but confronted relentlessly. This project rejects the idea that patriotism is obedience, nostalgia, or silence. True patriotism is resistance to domination in all its forms: slavery, white supremacy, oligarchy, exploitation, and the modern systems that inherit their logic. Abolition was never about comfort. It was about responsibility. Emerging tools, including AI, are not the rightful property of the wealthy or the powerful. Like the printing press, the pamphlet, and the street sermon before them, they are instruments meant to disrupt concentrated power, amplify suppressed truth, and restore agency to ordinary people. It is our duty to use every tool available to create the noise required to be heard when confronting systems designed to ignore us. Undeniably American is guided by lived experience as much as history. I am a United States Navy veteran whose perspective was shaped not by abstractions, but by death—by the faces in the caskets I prepared, the widows in pews, and the memorial pamphlets in the hands of fatherless children. My understanding of what God demanded of me was formed in grief. In loss. In the quiet realization of what is sacrificed so the richest men can preserve the smallest margins of excess. That experience stripped wealth of its mythology. You cannot take it with you. In the end, equality is wooden boxes and Equity is the right to LIVE free from oppressive forces and artificial barriers. Undeniably American exists to remember that truth, to refuse silence, and to carry abolition forward—not as history, but as obligation. Abolition until solidarity.