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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Oh boy. They'll be coming for Jane Austen next.
Her presumably ex-husband Tron is reputedly a conservative.
Never liked the series or her either.
But it's even worse that that. Much worse. These folks are very selectively expunging facts from the past. Christopher Columbus, Robert E. Lee, Stephen Foster, and now Laura Ingalls Wilder...all out.
But Martin Luther King - who thought homosexuality was a mental disorder - is still in. And so is Che Guevara. And so are those lovable, peaceful Aztecs (that human sacrifice thing was evidently just a rumor started by the Russians).
Little House on the Prairie is a new Face of Evil apparently.
Oh I’m sure they are selective in their outrage.
The “loving arms” of the commie piggies have just erased another piece of American history. Hey America! Time to wake up!
Lawsy, Miss Scahlett, Ah don’t know nothin’ bout birthin’ no babies!
This started years ago with the Laura Lee Hope series The Bobbsey Twins...(there were 2 sets of twins, 12 yo Bert and Nan and 6 yo Freddie and Flossie,)
Dinah the black cook was just that when I read these books 60 years ago...At that time there were about 35 of the books..
Now they have been reprinted and some words have been changed...including the way Dinah used to speak in her southern black rhetoric and diction... LOL......
She no longer calls the Bobbsey “chil’ns” her “honey lambs”
Burning the past is a way of burning the future.
Her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, was a major force in the early libertarian movement, opposing the New Deal and communism, and promoting liberty and individualism. She called Social Security a ponzi scheme that would ultimately fail. Ayn Rand was a colleague and friend. I hope the ALA doesn’t find that out, because Laura’s legacy will be toast by association.
> I wonder if the lefty moonbat that played her on TV agrees with this? <
She had better! Because if she doesn’t, she’ll get denounced faster than you can say “political purge”.
Gosh they ought to ban everything by Mark Twain too
Considering she died over 60 years ago, I am assuming she could give a carp what these commies do.
Most librarians spend their free time glued to the TV watching sitcoms, although I'm sure each and every one has her own well fingered copy of "50 Shades of Grey".
I never found Marian the Librarian or any as cute as Shirley Jones.
my take is that it is actually more about the left’s on going strategy of minimizing or blocking the cultural influence of famous Christians, both past and present.
A person growing up now believes all kinds of interesting things.
Sub Saharan natives were all over Europe and the British Isles. Cleopatra was Black. The Carib Indians lived a life of kindness and advanced science.
About three quarters of all Dr.s, Judges, Generals, special forces etc. are either female, Black, or Black females. Most of the rest are trans gender or Gay.
Some people really do believe these things.
> Little House on the Prairie is a new Face of Evil apparently. <
Yep. And if you can’t see that, then you mind just ain’t right. Please report to the nearest PC indoctrination camp (public university) for retraining.
After failing to destroy the 1,700-year-old sandstone statues of Buddha with anti-aircraft and tank fire, the Taliban brought a lorryload of dynamite from Kabul. A Western observer said: “They drilled holes into the torsos of the two statues and then placed dynamite charges inside the holes to blow them up.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYPjOeJyNDI
Pa Ingalls was born about 5 miles from our family homestead in western NY state.
Most of the TV shows were very respectful of minorities, IIRC.
I am so sick of history being erased by the left and their political correctness.
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