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WHY WE CAN'T WIN (except in my movies)
Everything you need to know about why I'm racial fatalist can be capture in the following two videos:
1) fb.watch/hcBHazQB4o/
and
2)
Everything you need to know about why I'm racial fatalist can be capture in the following two videos:
1) fb.watch/hcBHazQB4o/
and
2)
Take note of the nice genteel nonthreatening tone of Shontel Brown who is as much a puppet to Joe Biden & establishment Democrats as establishment Democrats claim Herschel Walker is to Donald Trump. Take note of the Oracle of Clyburnia, Jim Clyburn standing behind her.
I need you to view all black possibility in this country as being held hostage by this small class of black people that have the ears and purse strings of the white establishment. We will go no higher as a people on America soil than their thoughts, words and actions permit "Us."
@kaitfeldmann @CCBCwisc 1/ A THREAD:
I tend not to respond, but maybe it is time I shed some light on this post and my assessment of lack of BIPOC in Kidlit. I am speaking as a #BlackCreator and #PictureBook writer.
This is not throwing shade at agents, or editors...
I tend not to respond, but maybe it is time I shed some light on this post and my assessment of lack of BIPOC in Kidlit. I am speaking as a #BlackCreator and #PictureBook writer.
This is not throwing shade at agents, or editors...
@kaitfeldmann @CCBCwisc 2/ I remember I was told that I will not get published because I do not write picture books the right way. What does that mean? It means, I do not write "The White Way," which is the character tries three times and fail.
I write stories. To get books in front of editors in...
I write stories. To get books in front of editors in...
@kaitfeldmann @CCBCwisc 3/ "THE BIG HOUSE," you have to go through agents. Many agents say, "I didn't connect with the story," or "The voice is not authentic," or "I pass because it is not what publishers want." Then you ask an editor what they want and they reply, "I know when I see it."...
Just for a moment, I am going to drown out the images of profiled, surveilled, policed, lynched, choked, brutalized & murdered black boys & men w/images of their joy. It won't erase the ache, agony & fear, but joy is an act of resistance too. Add your #blackboyjoy #blackmanjoy
