Posted on 06/24/2018 1:36:33 PM PDT by Leaning Right
CHICAGO – A division of the American Library Association has voted to remove Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from a major children's book award over concerns with how the early-to-mid 20th century author portrayed blacks and Native Americans.
The Association for Library Service to Children's board made the unanimous decision Saturday at a meeting in New Orleans. The name has been changed to the Children's Literature Legacy Award.
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At least the American Library Association didn't order all copies of "Little House on the Prairie" to be burned in a big bonfire. But maybe they'll do that at their next meeting.
Standing ovation! Virtue signaling at its best.
Another step will be to stop showing reruns of Little House on the Prairie.
We see where this goes. This author had been admired and acclaimed. But now the left has decided that she didn’t have a 21st century politically correct world view. Thus, she becomes a worthless human being in their eyes...
For the most part, American librarians are over-the-cliff marxist activists.
I read the entire series of books to my eldest daughter when she was little. It is really good literature and history rolled into one. It’s odd that I cannot recall how Ms. Wilder portrayed Negroes and Indians in her books. It must have been really significant (per ALA), but it pales in comparison to the big themes in the books.
How very Soviet / 1984 / Fahrenheit 451 of them.
Most people don’t know that they lived in Florida for a short time. A little less than a year. Her Cousin lived next to them and their descendants still live in the same place.
It is a very rural setting only 3 miles from me.
“Pa? Am I a racist, too?”
“Shut up, Half Wit!”
I assume they will be burning the books as well.
What did Laura Ingalls Wilder have to do with any of that?!? They’re making her an un-person because she didn’t have the chance to become as “woke” as they are???
They really are out of their minds.
Oh for Gawd’s sake!!! Laura is to be punished today for accurately reflecting the mores and attitudes of her time. THAT is disgraceful. This is just an edit too far.
Little Crib on the Prairie.
I’m sure that they’ll ask that they be quietly recycled.
Cray-cray.
If you expunge every negative fact from the past, you will sanitize things that should be seen, and there will be no historical reference.
Should reports on Rosa Parks be sanitized? If a book was written about how she was treated, should that be sanitized? Should we remove all references to Blacks in the vernacular of the period prior to an including the 1800s?
Ingalls wrote about race in the language and societal manner of the day. If it was wrong, we should see it to understand better how much we have improved since then.
That’s the real rub. The Leftists don’t want anyone to know we have improved. They are still trying to convince folks nothing has changed.
Aren’t these the same clowns who give us an annual lecture on the evils of censorship? Don’t they sponsor “Banned Book Week”?
> “... over concerns with how the early-to-mid 20th Century author portrayed blacks and Native Americans.”
Black Americans agree that Laura treated Blacks and Native Americans respectfully and appropriately for her time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8K9GEF-g6E
Her politically correct critics today are condemning her for what she did not write rather than what she wrote.
“How very Soviet/ 1984/ Fahrenheit 451 of them.”
Exactly, revisionist history.
The march through the institutions working it’s evil.
Unbelievable. I take that back. Very believable.
When I was a child my mom read those books to me. One was during an extended hospital stay.
Modern academia is garbage.
If these librarians ever read Live and Let Die (and Diamonds Are Forever), Bond movies will be forever banned.
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