[bondjamesbond]

"You Hear Me?" was suggested for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders by the Columbia University Teachers College's Reading and Writing Project because it is the only anthology with poems written by minority teenagers, said Lucy Calkins, its founding director.

Race Politics trumps everything, as usual.

[pinkpanther111]

Its even worse than that! They heard an author of certain race wrote the poem, BUT DIDN'T bother to review it for content! Unbelievable!