Monochrome broadside. The poster's provocative statement - a riff on an aphorism - is made all the more so by the stamp of a stereotypically racist depiction of a Black person within a star at the bottom of the sheet. Kennedy explains, "Adults used to say 'Coffee makes you black' to deter children from drinking it. but it was a Black pride thing, too: The first time I heard the saying, it came from my mother's very dark-skinned friend, who joked: 'And after I have this cup, I'm gonna have another.'" The stamp does considerable work to establish the complexity of the deceptively simple statement above it, moving it from triviality to irony, and a meditation upon the insidious racial (and racist) assumptions consciously or unconsciously couched in American life. Kennedy also comments on his regular recruitment of such imagery, stating that it is his way of preserving the true history of America, otherwise apt to be erased. Staple holes to corners, else fine. 19 x 12 1/2 in.