Posted on 01/26/2022 4:47:10 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Washington school board removes ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ from curriculum due to racial sensitivity
A school board outside of Seattle voted to stop requiring students to read an iconic novel about racism and injustice in the Jim Crow-era Deep South.
The Mukilteo School Board approved a resolution to remove “To Kill a Mockingbird” from its 9th-grade curriculum after complaints it was racially insensitive, according to Fox News.
The move reportedly had the support of the district’s superintendent.
The 1960 Harper Lee novel about a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman would still be found in the school library, and teachers could still assign the fictional classic it if they chose, according to the article.
Parents, students and teachers overwhelmingly spoke out against requiring students to read the book at a board meeting Monday night, the outlet said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I never liked that book anyway.
They’re butt hurt over a freakin book, meanwhile in the Ukraine........
https://nypost.com/2022/01/26/ukrainian-mom-mariana-zhaglo-buys-rifle-will-fight-for-kiev/
I thought liberals love To Kill a Mockingbird because it perpetuates the victim mentality.
Apparently accurately telling the story about how a black man could get railroaded by a false accusation from a white woman in the pre-Civil Rights South is now insensitive?
Madness
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Well, yes, in part, that Atticus Finch is white. It takes a white man to save a black man, which is no longer politically correct. The rest of the argument is that its got racial slurs and attitudes in it, which are apparently upsetting for their own sake, regardless of their being ascribed to the villains of the piece. And the black people, their speech, attitudes, and etc., are described accurately as they would have been at the time. And so on. In general it is all a case of fashions having changed, and these days fashion, in everything, including tastes and mores and philosophies, is everything.
This is, as always, entirely correct. Orwell has been indispensable for making sense of the last 80 years, never more so than today.
I don’t know about accurate, exactly, as it is fiction. But it is plausible, and accurately descriptive of the time and place and society of its setting. That is counter to current fashions.
This is one of my top ten books that I have read.
It’s a great book and taught me all about racism.
Me neither. Its not a particularly good novel. But it was politically useful in its day, and so it gathered a literary reputation it doesn’t really deserve.
Lets burn your house because I don’t like the color of it...
Maybe they should look closer to home? Maybe study up on their very own Coon Chicken Inn?
https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/coon_chicken.htm
Look at the stage show Hamilton...What’s the difference between a white going black face and a black Hamilton?
Virtue Soapboxing is a 24/7 job.
Bump
More book banning liberals...
I agree with the Board only to the extent that I believe most 9th-graders are not ready for that level of reading. The subject itself, racism and injustice, can be included in the curriculum by other means, preparing students for that in-depth reading as a junior or senior in high school. It would be a rare and small group of 14- to 15-year-olds that could contain their raging hormones long enough to sit through a 50-minute class session without outrageous commentary, long-lasting juvenile hilarity on the meaning of “chifforobe”, or the girls breaking down over Atticus shooting the mad dog.
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