Every time I hear someone say something negative about Urban Fiction I wonder what planet they are on... They cant be on the same one I am on in which African Americans and Latinos are in the age of mass incarceration. It really makes me wonder if they are reading at the rate they are claiming they are or if they have sound comprehension skills. There is no way that you are reading nonfiction related to African Americans and you do not see issues related to mass incarceration, drug use, racism, poverty, drop out rates, and references to the underclass and not think there will be no impact. You cant truly believe that this is true. Can you? What exactly do you think that Sister Souljah, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, E. Franklin Frazier, Amos Wilson, Jawanzaa Kunjufu, Lawrence Otis Graham, Michele Alexander, and whole host of other writers were referencing in their work? Perhaps the issue is not only reading and writing...If your brain is not making connections across this work, you may need to check yourself instead of trying to check a writer that has rehabilitated themselves out of the criminal justice system. Just saying... youtube/watch?v=6Bd2MFwq_Eg
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 19:14:52 +0000
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