Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow. There are some schools
Speaker 1: that didn't want to take your book, even though kids
Speaker 1: love it, because they were like, this profanity that that
Speaker 1: the kids are using in the book. This, we don't
Speaker 1: want our children reading this. How how did you respond
Speaker 1: to that? Well, my first thought was you must not
Speaker 1: be listening to those kids in the hallways. Um. But
Speaker 1: at first I was angry. I can't lie. I was
Speaker 1: so angry because I knew that was a cop out,
Speaker 1: Like you can say that, and I will tell you this.
Speaker 1: There are exactly eighty nine instances of the F word
Speaker 1: and the hate you give I counted on my kindle.
Speaker 1: But last year a loan over people lost their lives
Speaker 1: at the hands of police brutality. That number is far scarier.
Speaker 1: So when you're telling me it's the language, no, that's
Speaker 1: not what it is. You don't want to talk about
Speaker 1: the topic. And then when you're saying that, what you're
Speaker 1: telling these kids is that your stories don't matter. We
Speaker 1: don't want to hear your stories because they make us uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: And my job as a writer is to write the
Speaker 1: stories that make adults uncomfortable, because that's what the kids needed.
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