They say I'm crazy after party

#000436

14” x 18”

Acrylic on stretched canvas

August 2, 2015

If you drive past a park on a nice side of town and see young men in hooded sweat shirts, laughing and rough housing, or if you drive past a night club with women in short skirts, men dressed in the latest urban fashions, do you have negative thoughts? Did the pictures in your mind, as you thought about the above words, describe young white university athletes or the professional white men and women from your neighborhood out to blow off steam? If Black and Brown lives are to matter, it will matter what you think and feel when you see them. When you think of them. Different doesn’t equate to bad…or dangerous.