Let’s pause.
I think that they don’t want us out the way.
And when it comes to books around race, or when it comes to history books, usually they are presented to students, not humans.So basically, just to reinforce what you said a minute ago, this story of race and racism and of us, how it has shaped and distorted all of us, is just an incredibly powerful, negative example of the power of ideas — and words, and writing — of turning something into a story that is heard and believed and internalized and lived.It’s terrible, not just that it doesn’t make sense. To me, that feels free. And it can become an illness. Photo credit: James J. Reddington.
What if it could just go?
Just as books that fortify the young also have a power to help heal adults, so too does this conversation. Tell me where you want me to go. And our role, I think, in this moment, it isn’t just — I’ve heard people say, we got to get out the way. And we have to find ways to rehumanize and welcome failure that turns into growth.But anyway, I just want to name, and it feels a little scary to name this, that I get troubled by the language of anti-racism as the main word or the main goal, because it’s a negative-negative.First and foremost, I have to say this: No one is actually — because my friends, my white friends, especially, are like, “Yo, I’m trying to become anti-racist.” That’s not a thing. And I think — look, I believe that so many people are so scared, for all kinds of reasons, that they are raising young people to not feel their feelings to the fullest extent. It’s something to think about, what happens when we breathe out or breathe in. This is not for me.” So instead, I’d say, “Look. We really believe that we deserve their respect, simply because we have years on them, and the truth is that respect must be earned. We have to be careful about making other people feel small, and we’re upset about it. We have to make space in our life together to be learning and growing, and that means that people will fail. Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of the acclaimed Track series from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award–winning author Jason Reynolds. A conscious rage. And you do something in the book, the And so I understood that, going into the making of this book, and so what I wanted to do was figure out how to eliminate all excuse to backpedal out of the pages. On January 13, 2020, the Library of Congress, the Children’s Book Council, and Every Child a Reader announced the appointment of Jason Reynolds as the seventh National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2020-2021. So reactionary rage is a dangerous thing. It’s that simple. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Let’s figure out how to grow from it, how to get strong, and then we need to get back out into the street. Jason Reynolds, who is African-American, grew up in Oxon Hill, Maryland. And because of her obsession with death, and because she wasn’t getting the answers that she wanted in regards to death, from what she was reading in traditional faith that she’d grown up in, which is Christian faith, because she’s a Southern Black woman; in those days, you were Baptist or you were Methodist. We want to make a world where everyone feels safe and free. I needed to make sure that no one closed the book. “They say that a library has burned.” Now, I didn’t know this.James Baldwin, my famous Baldwin quote, and he has a gazillion, obviously. If you need help, you need strategy planning, you need to understand how this works, you need some historical reference and context, I’m here to do all those things.But if you are emotionally broken, if something happens that hurts you emotionally, then it’s my job to step in and say, let’s process what has happened? I have to figure out how to tell them the truth, one, because a lot of these kids can handle it.
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