Wendy Redstar Project

We were born into two societies: an American one and a Caribbean one. Finding it hard to balance the two we put us at odds with both. We wouldn’t fit in at the white private school we went to, and with the black locals of St. Croix. This also put us at odds with ourselves. Ultimately we said “Fuck societal pressure”. We spoke our dialect in class and didn’t switch it, even when asked. We wore our cultural dress to school (no uniforms were required). We could pronounce all the big words in the Bible at church. We didn’t care who we offended we were being ourselves. The words written on the paper are all the words we used to affirm ourselves. We refuse to let the figurative and physical chains of society hold us back from our true selves. We blacker than black, and that’s that.