the 7 words you can’t say on TV!

Dready, Dready Art and Everything Dready killwhiteythis image makes people nervous … and i’ve never quite understood why.

the thought process behind this dready, was looking at ‘racism’ in the caribbean context with a not very dark skinned character writing ‘kill whitey’ across a wall.
growing up in a mixed society like jamaica, where elitism (money in the bank ism) rather than racism was the dominant factor, at least in my mind, in mixed company when ‘white’ was referred to it didn’t mean any jamaican in the room, it meant foreigners; North Americans, Europeans (no matter what the complexion of their skin) …
out of many one people!
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Dready art is a 100% caribbean product: it was imagined here, designed here, tested here – in barbados, bvi, cayman, grenada and jamaica – we live here and are from here, our children were born here, I draw it here (mostly, cause sometimes I draw it when I’m traveling!). So despite what has become the kind of global reach of dready art we try to think of ourselves as a little caribbean company just doing our thing.

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