Photo by Nile Scott Studios; Lewis D. Wheeler, Kadahj Bennett, Hubens “Bobby” Cius

Presented by SpeakEasy Stage Co. with The Front Porch Arts Collective
By Antoinette Nwandu
Directed by Monica White Ndounou
Fight choreography by Brandon G. Green
Movement coaching by Mila Thigpen
Dramaturgy by Pascale Florestal

January 3 – Feb. 2, 2020
Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts
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Critique by Kitty Drexel

Trigger warning: white guilt, language, fuck the police

(Boston, MA) The sheer volume of what one must understand as true regardless of personal belief in order to not merely understand but thoroughly digest Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over at SpeakEasy Stage is overwhelming. The role that white people play in perpetuating racism’s systemic horrorshow machinations against Black people (and all people of color) is astounding.

Here is a list of links containing basic concepts that could be helpful. 

• It is not the responsibility of Black people to explain racism or to convince white people that it exists. 
• Being nice isn’t the same as not being racist. Racist people are nice all of the time. Nice people are racist all the time.
• Black friends won’t make a white person less racist. Dismantling internalized racism requires a lifetime of work.  
• It should go without saying that Black people want equality. They don’t want to reverse their treatment at the hands of white people back onto white people. 
• Racism is about power. Reverse racism doesn’t exist. 
• White people have to stop taking personally Black resistance to oppression.  
• All of this information is a Google search away. 

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