Posted on 01/22/2018 8:34:36 AM PST by C19fan
A school district in Wisconsin is mulling over whether to remove the classic Harper Lee novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” from its high school curriculum after a parental complaint.
Parent Tujama Kameeta wants the Monona Grove School District in Monona, Wisconsin town to remove the novel due to the “48 racial slurs directed at African Americans in the book.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
I wasn’t judging you for not liking it, I just wondered why you didn’t. I quite do like it,although it is out of my normal sphere, but it was good this weekend.
If I may interject, the incestual culture of Mayella and Bob Ewell was very far removed from the culture of Scout, Jem, Atticus and Dill, and even Calpurnia.
I stopped reading fiction long ago, though every once in a while, I'll read what I call "cotton candy for the brain", again.
Time was that I only read fiction, with a very few non-fiction books thrown into the mix, but that was in my "salad days".
I’m usually a nonfiction reader but have been on a stretch of fiction books due to suggestions.
Do you like podcast? Have you heard S-Town?
It's one thing to have had my grandmother/parents read to me when I was little, but I don't want someone to read their work/someone else's to me, as an adult.
I know that lots of people enjoy that sort of thing, but it's just not my cup of tea; though I do admit to having very much enjoyed reading to my progeny and grand, when they all were little.
I grew up listening to the radio, when little, so it's not as though I'm unable to visualize a story and do enjoy listening to old radio shows, now, on long car trips. But thagt's somehow something quite different. Well, it is to me, at any rate. ;^)
Control of education has long ago been surrendered to the faaaaaaaaaaaaaar left and even in the most elite/best private schools, the best of Western Lit classics/masters ( European and American ) is hardly ever taught/read now; sadly.]
Absolutely true. I hang around a college coffee shop and bookstore at a state university in Western Oregon, and am appalled at how uncultured and ignorant so many of the young people are.
Leftism has failed wherever it has been tried.
And rather than being scripted, this story unfolds in interviews, while the interviewer also acts as narrator.
It's a beautiful work and it's been downloaded over 80 millions times so far. (Free download.)
It's highly recommended. I personally loved it while at the same time, not being in agreement with the main character. But I felt a great deal of compassion for him, and I still do. No matter how long I live, I won't forget John B. McLemore.
OTOH...there were/are non-lefty people, who put down erudition and being well read and/or cultured, which I find weird.
Not every book, "art" form appeals to everyone, however, to not even try to learn about things is STUPID! Besides which, a common "culture" is one of the things that binds a nation and her people together!
Now, it seems as though as everyone and everything is pigeonholed/compartmentalized by race, socio-economics, ethnicity,plunged down into the basest common denominator and such. And THAT stinks!
I'm glad that you've found something that engages you and that you enjoy, but it's not for me.
Whilst I have enjoyed reading ROMAN A CLEFs, from Dickens to more modern day books, reading people's diaries ( Queen Victoria's, John & Abby Adams' letters and such ) this podcast is far too voyeuristic, IF FOR REAL, for me to give a damn about. And I'm not so sure that it isn't just some scripted thing.
>> A school district in Wisconsin is mulling ...
... whether or not it should fully capitulate to Leftism.
It's about a polymath, a man who became the best in the world at fixing antique clocks that no one else would even try to repair.
His mind was such that when taking the clocks apart, he could plot the corrections needed from the centuries old, almost imperceptible "witness marks" that mapped the life and times of the clock.
The 7 chapter podcast is about a suspected murder and corruption that John believes he has uncovered in his small Bibb County, Alabama town, just a few miles from my own.
And there was corruption and a death, but not the ones expected.
John B. Mclemore is considered a force of nature, a brilliant man who was summoned to Europe to repair the finest clocks in the world, yet he never married or moved from his mother's centuries old home after his father died. He built the only hedge maze in Alabama and built a 300 foot long wall of roses. He knew the latin name of every plant native to his state.
He was a man of towering intellect who struggled with the things that you and I probably take for granted. And once you meet John B., you will never forget him, whether in person or through the podcast.
How do I know he's real? My very good friend is a friend of John's and has known him since college.
For me?
He sounds like an eccentric, who would be interesting to talk to, in real life; maybe.
Everyone has an interesting story to tell, though they may not see it that way themselves. But it means less than nothing to me.
When I was a freshman in college, I was friendly with someone who asked me home for the weekend. Nice get away and I was delighted to go.
When we pulled up to the family home, a car was parked out front and a young man was walking towards it, but stopped when he saw up dive up. Once out of the car, he was introduced to me and I had all I could do just to say "how do you do" and smile.
WHY?
Because the young man's name was RODNEY HARRINGTON, this was in Gilmington, N.H., and I had read PEYTON PLACE and seen the movie ( all on the sly, because it was forbidden to do either, at the boarding school I went to, but we all did at least one or the other )and one of the main charactger's name was...RODNEY HARRINGTON !
And yes, that young man was the son of the boy in that book!
Would I have been interested in hearing a podcast, that he or his father was on? Nope...not the same thing.
As a friend of my friend, it was both a somewhat unnerving meeting, but an interesting one.
I love my "family stories" and really enjoy hearing my friends' family stories too...because i know them and it means something to me!
The man in this podcast is an untraveled eccentric, who is a busybody. Neither he nor his area have any meaning for me.
Look...you need to face the fact that not EVERYONE shares your tastes/interests and stop "pushing"; but rather, just accept the fact that when someone politely attempts to tell you that they 1) DON'T LIKE SOMETHING YOU DO 2) ISN'T INTERESTED in something, you need to just let it go.
I'm NOT trying to hurt your feelings, but I'm getting a virtual black & blue mark from you jabbing me with your finger. ;^)
80 million people loved the story. If you don’t think you’d be interested, then by all means, skip it.
Even telling you to JUST DROP IT, in no uncertain terms, didn't manage to make it into your brain matter.
ARE YOU BEING PAID FOR SHILLING THIS PODCAST?
Spamming/hijacking this thread with this unalloyed, unadulterated, OFF TOPIC crap, in reply to me, is not just offensive, but stupid!
Some people love watching reality shows, some people like to watch nothing but programs about WWII; others, like you, are addicted to their own opinions and spam their current obsession to threads that have less than nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Agreed. And fast.
Thread winner.
I have been accused of living under the hill :)
I found this thread very interesting as it veered off into other works of literature, and I found your contribution just as fascinating. I had never heard of that guy. I like hearing things about other parts of the world and this country.
Thank you for your posts.
:)
Here’s the deal: you flap your jaws about your opinion, and if you by chance (in that process) misstate what my opinion is, or what I’ve actually said, I’ll correct you.
Should you need any further assistance, ping me, I’m always delighted to help. That’s what we Southern ladies are raised to do.
Thank you friend!
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