Fort Myers held an art show last weekend. Off to the side, high school kids worked on chalk art.
Bad Bunny! It was just a few days before the Super Bowl. About a quarter of the Lee County population is Hispanic or Latino, so this was not surprising.
I should have stopped to ask these students what the orange birds symbolize.
Riverdale High School is at the far eastern edge of Fort Myers and Lehigh is even further into the agricultural and rural inland part of the county. Citrus has been the economic heart of this part of Southwest Florida for decades. No doubt some of these kids come from farmworker families.
Birds featured prominently. If I were smarter or better attuned to today's youth or perhaps Hispanic culture, I might have been able to decode some of the meanings.
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