‘You Don’t Know How to Read to Your Kids, Man?’: Charlamagne Gives Juelz Santana Donkey of the Day for Arguing That Kids Don’t Need to Read

It seems like literacy is at an all-time low. It’s not only that people don’t read. People aren’t even encouraged to do so. Why read when you can put an iPad in front of a kid’s face? Adults won’t read because they’re likely to decompress their brains after an exhausting day at work. Consequently, they’ll doom scroll and won’t read, either. Moreover, with the emergence of AI, our brains are dulling, and our curiosity is burned out of us. As a result, you have people like Juelz Santana, who earnestly argued that people do not have to actually read.

When he was on the No Funny Sh*t podcast, Juelz told the hosts that financial literacy means significantly more than knowing how to read. Essentially, if you can speak numbers, everything else doesn’t matter to him. “By the time they get to nint