"I am / a nonstop ball of energy. / Powerful and full of light. / I am a go-getter. A difference maker. / A leader."Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James/Penguin Young Readers
"Whenever you saw a black male character in children's books, he was either playing basketball, he was a runaway slave, or just visually looking very docile or assimilating," Barnes says. "I am Saturday mornings in the summertime. / I am two bounces and a front flip / off the diving board. / I am hilarious. I am the life of the party. / I am the smile forming on your face / right now."Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James/Penguin Young Readers
"My son is autistic, and so he doesn't often get asked to do things or asked to be the center of things," James says. It was powerful to illustrate his child"looking like how I feel he sees himself and how we see him as his family."
And I say again, especially to any naysayer: Children emulate the images they most frequently see. Thank you for helping to remind our Black babies of the good in themselves.
Yes! It’s a beautifully written book with beautiful illustrations! Thanks for writing on it.
When you single out a race, that's racist.
If “Black kids-boys in particular” had fathers in homes, greater likelihood of them being productive & law-abiding adults. Of course, same can be said for all races, but its a bigger problem in Black community thanks to liberal policies where illegitimate kids get more “funding.”
Unfortunately, Black boys are destroyed once they are forced into the sysmetically racist public school system. That's why racists oppose school choice much.
Is that a black kid flying away from the cops?
All sons are every good thing!
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The sky is not the limit, my little brother.
I need this book for my 3 y.o. who continues to light up and cheer, literally every time I tell him that his is extra-ordinary, handsome, and kind, and that he deserves to be here, because he matters. I instill these affirmations in him at least twice a day, if not more.
Despite making up just 7% of the u.s. population, black men are responsible for over half of all homicides in the united states.
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