Stacy Renee's Art
There is something that restrains the struggle of the memories of the relationship and the histories between white people and Black Americans that lives in the face of many young white women. It isn't their doing. They, in their youth, could not create the dynamic play of youth and innocence within them, or the tendency to plunge themselves into adventures, and play. It is not that young white women are unique in this capacity. It is that these things are and can be facilitators. Something and someone has to facilitate between the warring factions within each group, and it makes sense that our young people do that job.
The artist can play that role and not enough know they are playing that role. There is something within your art, Stacy Renee, that speaks to the hope of the Youth Movement in the 1960's, and revisits the era with fresh eyes. What I've brought up was something that Black revolutionaries wrestled with in those times. Many often thought romantic relationships with white women were revenge, and counting coup, but come the morning their souls were changed and revolution took on another dimension and stepped towards healing wounds and counseling themselves with the possibility of social change as reconciliation. It was not a popular idea in the thick of battle, but those relationships had a calming and disturbing effect upon lovers. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.30.13
There is something that restrains the struggle of the memories of the relationship and the histories between white people and Black Americans that lives in the face of many young white women. It isn't their doing. They, in their youth, could not create the dynamic play of youth and innocence within them, or the tendency to plunge themselves into adventures, and play. It is not that young white women are unique in this capacity. It is that these things are and can be facilitators. Something and someone has to facilitate between the warring factions within each group, and it makes sense that our young people do that job.
The artist can play that role and not enough know they are playing that role. There is something within your art, Stacy Renee, that speaks to the hope of the Youth Movement in the 1960's, and revisits the era with fresh eyes. What I've brought up was something that Black revolutionaries wrestled with in those times. Many often thought romantic relationships with white women were revenge, and counting coup, but come the morning their souls were changed and revolution took on another dimension and stepped towards healing wounds and counseling themselves with the possibility of social change as reconciliation. It was not a popular idea in the thick of battle, but those relationships had a calming and disturbing effect upon lovers. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.30.13
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