If you’re missing the point of the new books I’ve recently posted, check out Jelani Cobb, History Professor at Spelman University here on Tayari Jones’ blog.

Yes, he’s writing about music but our young people are caught up in a trick bag. They’re no longer learning the value of education, the morals of decency or the vulgarity of that which is common. Why is gratuitious sex, drugs and gangs what it takes to sell a book to our children?? Becoming literate is supposed to help one find there place in the world, not get lost in it.