Kionne McGhee is a lot of things: The son of a South Dade bean picker. A former 5000 Role Models mentee. Howard University alum. Naranja native. An attorney and a Miami-Dade commissioner. But in his film “The Reject,” based on his two books “A mer[e] I Can is American” and “Conquering Hope,” we meet a child with dyslexia and ADHD, who struggled academically and dealt with chronic absenteeism, and confronts the deaths of his father and brother.
And he’s not ashamed of any of it, describing his film as one that tells the story of neurodiversity and how Black children can overcome those challenges to achieve success. “The film tells the story of how those gifts, if taken in the right light and nurtured, can be beneficial to the person that God has given those gifts to and that person then can turn around and be of benefit to the community as a whole,” he told the Herald.
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