i enjoyed reading it. i am puzzled by why is banned. it is visceral. it is real. it s, unless you are a super prude, it uses language and references that everybody uses. if any parents doesn t think their kid knows about stuff like this, that is just weird and prudish and out of sync with everything. what is your sense of why this book is banned? i think people are afraid. i say this as a parent. i have a fourth grader and a kindergarten. and, like i understand the impulse and the instinct to try to keep these children safe and innocent. the difference between my children and the parents of children who can cry out against this book is that they have to know the information in the book to stay safe. mine have to know this information. so my hope is that instead of leaning into this fear that your kids are going to be exposed to something in a book
that they are likely already exposed to in the world, parents whittling into the idea of compassion. and being interested in other people s stories. it is interesting. justice, the character around whom the book is written. his run in with the white police officer is literally in the first pages of the book. and at one point, it even says, mama told him how to handle this type of situation. but you have to realize, make sure the police can see your, hands although that is impossible right now, because he is handcuffed. he said, officer castillo, i mean no disrespect. and he never even got the words. out a lot of people who read, that said that was hard to reach for them. because we have been watching on tv. we have seen videos of that s now all the time. there is a 17 year old black kid who is running into something we now know to actually be real in america all the time. why can t parents allow children? to know that that is what
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jarred and trey are only two people, but after today, i know that when i had to yell next fall, because i am going there, but i m going to be paranoid about people go looking at me, wondering if i m qualified to be. there had a work against us martin? getting real with you, i feel a little defeated. knowing there are people who don t want me to succeed, that is depressing. especially coming from two directions. you are not making the point to have this conversation many weeks ago. and yet when we heard the confirmation hearings of justice ketanji brown jackson, she said the same thing about her time at harvard. i don t know if i belong, here i don t know if i fit in. and someone looked at her and said to persevere. yeah. yeah. it is hard. i grew up similar to justice. i found myself in spaces where i was the only african american student. and there are scenes from the book that i pulled from my own life. but i will, say though, is that there is hope. if i had to say what s the