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Virginia school district bans classic novels over racial slurs
WTVR.com (see-BS) ^ | 12-1-16 | WEB STAFF

Posted on 12/02/2016 7:26:14 PM PST by dynachrome

ACCOMACK COUNTY, Va. -- They've been in classrooms for decades, but two classic American novels are now temporarily banned from Accomack County Public Schools.

Use of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and “To Kill a Mockingbird” were suspended after a parent raised concerns about their use of the N-word.

“There's so much racial slurs and defensive wording in there that you can't get past that,” the mother said during last month’s school board meeting. “Right now, we are a nation divided as it is."

She filed a complaint through a “Request for Reconsideration of Learning Resources” form.

(Excerpt) Read more at wtvr.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bookbanning; education; literature; nword; schools; virginia
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To: dynachrome

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


41 posted on 12/02/2016 9:02:14 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Doogle
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.
42 posted on 12/02/2016 9:04:21 PM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo smart)
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To: dynachrome

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.


43 posted on 12/02/2016 9:04:39 PM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Culturally insensitive”


44 posted on 12/02/2016 9:05:09 PM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: dynachrome

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


45 posted on 12/02/2016 9:09:11 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Doogle

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.


46 posted on 12/02/2016 9:13:48 PM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo smart)
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To: dynachrome
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.

47 posted on 12/02/2016 9:14:13 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: stylin19a

...probably won’t now...lol


48 posted on 12/02/2016 9:16:06 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: dynachrome

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


49 posted on 12/02/2016 9:16:55 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Emergencyawesome

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....


50 posted on 12/02/2016 9:26:45 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: dynachrome

Ridiculous.


51 posted on 12/02/2016 9:27:20 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: sheik yerbouty

“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.


52 posted on 12/02/2016 9:30:00 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: dynachrome

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.


53 posted on 12/02/2016 9:52:55 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: dynachrome

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


54 posted on 12/02/2016 9:55:09 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: dynachrome

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.


55 posted on 12/02/2016 9:59:29 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: dynachrome

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


56 posted on 12/02/2016 10:05:48 PM PST by Stevenc131
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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

57 posted on 12/02/2016 10:36:47 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: dynachrome

58 posted on 12/02/2016 11:28:21 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: dynachrome

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


59 posted on 12/03/2016 2:33:13 AM PST by C19fan
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To: workerbee

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.


60 posted on 12/03/2016 2:52:11 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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