*In a “Stay Woke” kind of way, one Chicago kid has newfound fame after he corrected his teacher for ‘telling lies’ about who discovered America. The teacher espouses it was Christopher Columbus. The kid quotes his mom, (and Jay-Z), who saya, “the only Christopher we acknowledge is Wallace.”
Apparently little dude didn’t set out to be famous (and get ready, I have a feeling he is going to be on Ellen soon). After all, journal entries — as this was — are supposed to be private. But if I was King Johnson’s mother, I would not have been able to keep this to myself either.
Note the first name: KING!
In an interview with HuffPost we learn the 8-year-old wrote…
“Today was not a good learning day. Blah, blah, blah. I only wanted to hear you not talking. You said something wrong and I can’t listen when I hear lies.”
Young Sir Johnson asked a question even many Black adults have pondered.
“How can white people teach black history?”