The Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Chicago, places like that . . . I'm from Jamaica. My early education had a sort of British colonial background. I was shown the white tradition. But being black I was forced to confront the other side of that coin.
Most black artists have to reeducate themselves sooner or later.
If you go to the Art Institute or the Rhode Island School of Design, or wherever, you're in a community of white people and white values. You don't think about it all that much until you leave school. Then you're forced to. Then you live in the black community and you're confronted more acutely with black issues. Most black artists have had to rethink their basic approach to art.