Jon Wolfman’s book challenge #3
When I was much younger I read Manchild in the Promised Land. I thought it was important but Claude Brown didn’t speak to me personally. He wasn’t my contemporary. Nathan McCall is my contemporary and also a really good writer. He made it much easier for me to compare our lives and to get an idea of what Black kids my age were growing up with, probably including kids I knew in suburban NY where the money line and the color line overlapped almost completely. I had no clue. They were living in a war zone compared to me and they didn’t have to be really urban (like Claude Brown was) to live in one. He probably gave me a better and more visceral idea of the differences than anyone. I usually stay away from terms like Paradigm Shift but this was one. I’ve read other authors on the subject but none like McCall.
Jonathan Wolfman
09/27/2019 @ 8:25 am
thanks!
10/01/2019 @ 10:46 am
I had to screw around with the featured image because it was screwing up the layout on the home page. When you have a long skinny image that you want to use for a featured image, simply install the original image as the featured image. Save the article. View the article. Then simply copy the image at the beginning of the article, save it, and use THAT VERSION of the images as your featured image. This way, iet will look the same inside the article but it will be the correct width on the home pages. And please don’t use the same image inside the article. Doesn’t look right.
koshersalaami
10/02/2019 @ 9:39 am
I had to use the same image because the featured image cut off too much of the cover