Jerry Craft
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Or, hey, you know, my kid has never been a reader before and he read your book three times. Like, that's what I'm used to. Love.
Or, hey, you know, my kid has never been a reader before and he read your book three times. Like, that's what I'm used to. Love.
So now it's like, hey, can you comment here in the BBC? I'm like, yeah.
So now it's like, hey, can you comment here in the BBC? I'm like, yeah.
The general books are, wants to live better, and our books, just wants to live. Your books, his father's king. Our books, his father's gone. Lives in a magical kingdom, lives in the hood. All the books with black protagonists were history or misery. No kid like me ever made it to the end of a book. There was no dad. There was nothing.
The general books are, wants to live better, and our books, just wants to live. Your books, his father's king. Our books, his father's gone. Lives in a magical kingdom, lives in the hood. All the books with black protagonists were history or misery. No kid like me ever made it to the end of a book. There was no dad. There was nothing.
The kids always lived on the south side of somewhere that was just really horrible. And it was gangs or slavery or civil rights or police brutality. And I'm like, can I just see a kid who the biggest problem of the day is whether he wants to play Xbox or PlayStation? And that's why I do what I do. I make those books that I wish I had.
The kids always lived on the south side of somewhere that was just really horrible. And it was gangs or slavery or civil rights or police brutality. And I'm like, can I just see a kid who the biggest problem of the day is whether he wants to play Xbox or PlayStation? And that's why I do what I do. I make those books that I wish I had.
So one person sent me the actual school board link that I guess they filmed the school board. And I just refused to watch that because, you know, like when I'm sitting for 16 hours a day drawing like humorous stuff for kids, I have to protect my own brain and my own psyche because I don't want, you know, my next book kids to be like, wow, Mr. Kraft used to be funny.
So one person sent me the actual school board link that I guess they filmed the school board. And I just refused to watch that because, you know, like when I'm sitting for 16 hours a day drawing like humorous stuff for kids, I have to protect my own brain and my own psyche because I don't want, you know, my next book kids to be like, wow, Mr. Kraft used to be funny.
Now he's so depressing, you know? So I have to be in a really good mental space for that.
Now he's so depressing, you know? So I have to be in a really good mental space for that.
Yeah, I did not want to go down that rabbit hole.
Yeah, I did not want to go down that rabbit hole.
The complaint that I saw was that I'm teaching kids critical race theory. So the college course that mentions things such as institutional racism and all these really heavy, deep things that they are studying and picking apart in college, I was now breaking that down for fourth and fifth graders, apparently. So... Oh, is that for me? Is that Katie Texas? Like, we want equal opportunity.
The complaint that I saw was that I'm teaching kids critical race theory. So the college course that mentions things such as institutional racism and all these really heavy, deep things that they are studying and picking apart in college, I was now breaking that down for fourth and fifth graders, apparently. So... Oh, is that for me? Is that Katie Texas? Like, we want equal opportunity.
We have to give an opposing viewpoint.
We have to give an opposing viewpoint.