The only words Boo Radley spoke in "To Kill A Mockingbird"
"Will you take me home?"
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.
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If you are suggesting I want to “burn “ anything, YOU ARE WRONG.
I did not like the manipulation of the book, therefore, I did not like it. I don’t care if the whole world reads it and disagrees with me. That is their choice.
I was thinking along the same line. TKAM puts forth the notion that there are fair-minded whites, that they are not, as a race, hopelessly unredeemable, and that narrative cannot coexist alongside CRT.
The only words Boo Radley spoke in "To Kill A Mockingbird"
"Will you take me home?"
“If you want to end racism, stop talking about it. “ - Morgan Freeman.....................
Being white might not be the problem. Some probably pointed out that Atticus Finch would almost certainly have been a Republican. As the black people in the film would have been. As was Martin Luther King at the time.
I thought banning books was bad
Archie Bunker is absolutely amazing as Gillespie.
"Parents, students and teachers overwhelmingly spoke out against" To Kill a Mockingbird.
What sheeple! I'm sure they all fancy themselves as "free thinkers" when in reality they are mired in the quicksand of group-think. They self-rightously pat themselves on the back priding themselves on how "woke" they are.
No doubt none of these fools has ever actually read the novel. It is the opposite of what they imagine it to be.
Instead of removing a classic, remove the school board instead. They’re a waaaayyy bigger threat than a book.
Only books the neo-Pharisees of the left deem unworthy meaning all conservative authors and books like this which don't fit the proper narrative.
One could make an argument that it makes white people look bad.
Don’t forget, defended by a white man-oh the horror.
I was gonna say, there is a sense in which this sort of student uprising at times could be a good sign.
Well, at least one good thing came from all this CRT crap.
Geez, you would think that Lit teachers were TRYING to make kids hate reading with some of the books they inflicted on students. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is a great example of the torment inflicted on students.
The best books one can read aren’t recommended in a publik skool sistem anyway - gotta keep ‘em ignorant.
They can’t have Huckleberry Finn, either.
Or the new Annie and The Wiz. Not creative enough for a new storyline.
I read it for the first time about six years ago. I liked its attack on the "progressive" education practices promoted by John Dewey and his ilk, but for the most part, I didn't like it either. I got turned off by its historical inaccuracies.
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