Virginia school district bans classic novels over racial slurs

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[bgill]

I read every Mark Twain book I could get ahold of back in 4th or 5th grade.

[stylin19a]

well, actually, I am guessing\assumimg (I know, I know)

“It's in a book and they'll feel that they are able to say that to anybody, and so I don't feel that that should be done,” Teresa Wilkins, whose kids attend ACPS.

[ReaganGeneration2]

Steve Bannon probably read these two books. Thus, proving he is a White Nationalist Supremacist Aryan Nation Anti-Semite Anti-Dentite and all-around HATER.

These are surely on Gen Mattis’ huge reading list. So he’s Borked for sure.

[jughandle]

“Culturally insensitive”

[Trailerpark Badass]

Lol, “defensive wording?” “So much racial slurs?” Probably an African-American Studies major.

[stylin19a]

Looks like the complaint was made at the last board session.
The Board publishes the meeting minutes from the last board meeting at the current meeting.

so, I will have to wait until 12/6/2016 to see if she’s mentioned in the meeting minutes.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I know. If they are too dense to discern meaning from the text itself, you would hope the might have enough awareness of our cultural history to know the general reception of those works. Nope, nothing but weapons-grade ignorance, but still gets to dictate public school curriculum.

Hell, it's not like any of those kids could actually read the books, anyway.

[Doogle]

...probably won’t now...lol

[leaning conservative]

As long as “Valley of the Dolls” is safe the world is okay.

[Bshaw]

Banning books? Who are these abject morons? It’s the sort of thing Isis might suggest.

Oh yeah, not tto mention our Civil war statues and honored Confederate grounds, the defiling of those needs to end NOW.

Last time I checked, it was not the stars and bars flying high over the incoming slave vessels....

[Salvation]

Ridiculous.

[Bshaw]

“Fahrenheit 451 if they had their way!”

I own it, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Atlas Shrugged and To kill a Mockingbird too.

And I intend my children to read them all.

[Steve_Seattle]

Classic novels sympathetic to blacks banned in schools for historically accurate use of “n” word, but no one complains when rappers repeatedly use “n” word and obscenities at White House performances and Clinton rallies.

[Steve_Seattle]

The people who want to ban these novels probably love rap music with its constant use of the “n” word, obscenities, and misogynistic language.

[left that other site]

Both novels are models of seeing a person for who he IS, not the color of their skin.

Huckleberry Finn was especially poignant in that regard, as he drifted down the mighty river with Jim.

[Stevenc131]

Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) is laughing from beyond the grave. Dead over a 100 years, and he’s still stirring up trouble.

[cynwoody]

God help us if we mention the dog’s name in the book or movie THE DAM BUSTERS!

The dog's grave, at RAF Scampton

[jonrick46]

[C19fan]

Thankfully the LGBTs have not gone after Victorian novels that use faggots to describe a bundle of kindling wood...yet.

[mewzilla]

Wanna bet she, the parent, hasn’t even read the freaking book, just scanned it for certain words..

The school board should demand the parent give them, the board, a book report. Then have the discussion.