Steve Gorman’s roots-rock band Trigger Hippy last year, is tired of being your token black friend. Woodhouse plainly says as much in a first-person poem that the Minneapolis native wrote after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police.
Angered over witnessing another black person killed by the police, the Berklee College of Music graduate vented her frustration in her poem, loosely titled “Exhausted.” With help from her friend, the director Jenna Winstead, she adapted it as a performance-art piece, retitled it “A Message From One of Your Black Friends,” and forcefully recited it in a striking black-and-white video filmed by Froy Madrigal.
“It’s implied that if you’re a gospel drummer or a gospel musician, you’re self-taught, and you haven’t spent the time to go to school and learn your craft and your instrument,” she says. “I can’t tell you how many times someone has come up to me and said, ‘Did you start playing saxophone in church?’ I went to Berklee College of Music and graduated.”
I could see that. It would be exhausting and exasperating to see and hear how blacks in general are seen and secretly discriminated against. Yes, I agree with your POV.
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