This is the website that you can go to to read his material or you can go to:
- https://kchronicles.com/
- https://www.google.com/search?q=keith+knight&tbm=isch&chips=q:keith+knight,online_chips:comics&rlz=1C1PRFI_enUS861US861&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjPr4GZ7fbsAhUVpK0KHfnfATQQ4lYoAXoECAEQFw&biw=1688&bih=838
Keith Knight is the founder and co-creator of Hulu’s new hit show ‘Woke” and is also the cartoonist for many (Th)ink comics and also for the K Chronicles. While his work is humorous and universal in appeal, he also often deals with political, social, and racial issues. He is accomplished person that made TV relevant. His claim to fame is that he is a cartoonist and he is also a musician.
He channels all the rage, discomfort, and what things that African Americans/Asians/Mexicans/mixed races go through on a daily basis in this country and around the world but mixes it with some humor as well. People that never have heard of this guy will be asking, “Who is this guy?”. His longest running comic strip called the K Chronicles. The K Chronicles is his semi – autobiographically strip that taken what happens to him, he rants about it, and then he twists it at the end.
He is from Boston, Massachusetts. He shows the almost famous picture in Boston where there is a group of white people in the streets. Most importantly, a white man with an American flag and other white guy holding an African American guy in a suit and try to kill him with the American flag. He sees this as a metaphor of America.
This time in America was a biased time where black children are in prominently all white schools and that the whites did not like this transitions. Bussing in the 70’s. Bussing means desegregation. Lead to protesting.
A study came out stating that “if there is a black teacher in school from grades Kindergarten to 12th grade; then black children are 30 to 35% more likely to go to college or university. Because there is a teacher that looks like them in a school setting.” One of his professors in college when he was a junior taking American Literature was showing all black writers. Knight asked him “Why are you showing us all black writers? His professor responded by says “Do you mean ALL American writers? That is what I am giving you.” America is taught the writers are Mark Twain; that is what America is.
American writers shouldn’t be based on the color of your skin or nationality.
This professor wanted to invert the system so the his students know that they can change the world in a positive way. The ‘One Black Kid’ is his most liked comic strip because it can be a story of different races and can cover different versions. It’s is focused on someone that doesn’t look like me.
Knight makes this comics about his life then and now to show how it is in America living as a black man. Alone. How people treated him or others of color compared to someone of color with a ‘white person’ standing next to them. The difference that it makes. It shouldn’t be that way; but it is.
(Th)ink is his last name backwards without the g but Keith never realized it until 15 years in. He makes the remark saying that he gets all warm and fuzzy by looking at this logo because it reminds him of Snoopy.
The race card or black on black crime is what some white people say when they have a problem with the awkward conversation. The sayings like “Get over it; it was a long time ago.” or ” My dog was black; I’m not racist!” The conversation is about race in America.
The problem in America is its race problem.
The conversation usually goes about 5.2 seconds before it stops and it is never takes about again. For far to long, this has happened. It needs be brought up and talked about or stopped all together.
I’ll put the link below; so you can watch it for yourself as well.
All the love,
Cheyenne
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