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 for Pete’s sakes!
> Gosh they ought to ban everything by Mark Twain too <
The ‘Mark Twain Prize for American Humor’ is given to (presumably) America’s top comedians. Whoopi Goldberg, Ellen DeGeneres, and David Letterman have all won.
How dare they accept an award named after a white racist! I demand that all the works done by those awardees be destroyed.
The association, which took the vote at its board meeting in New Orleans, said the vote "was greeted by a standing ovation by the audience in attendance."
Can you imagine that? It's like their team had just won the Superbowl! They were getting the vapors and swooning in hysterical delirium at the joy of defrocking that secret crypto-Nazi Laura Ingalls Wilder.
More childish PC nonsense.
The American Red Guards have no shame.
My Great Grandfather performed the wedding for their Cousins whose descendants still live there.
Laura Bush went around the world pushing witchcraft with Harry Potter books.
It’s not the what but the why. An honor is being taken because didn’t live long enough for the chance to become “woke.”
I’ve never read her books; I think I may get a set.
Libraries will soon have approved books only.
You dated Shirley Jones?!? Lucky dog! :-D
Vile.
You dated Shirley Jones?!? Lucky dog! :-D
Oof. Apologies to all for the double-feed.
You should see the bizarre crap offered on the shelves of NYC libraries. When I peruse the shelves, you must hear the Wap! Wap! Wap! as I look at the dust cover synopsis and slam the book closed as something disgusting I’d never want to read. But they offer this garbage and banish wholesome good reading like Laura Ingalls Wilder? Sick libtards. Must belong to the same club as people who are suddenly offended by statues which have sat unnoticed for a century and colleges who ban conservative speakers but welcome leftist nut cases.
They are a wonderful first-person account of what it was like to Win the West. Remember when we actually used that term with pride along with Manifest Destiny?
I’ve been reading “My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting” by William Hamilton. His is also a non-fiction first-person account of when he first went west as an 18 year old in about 1840 or 1845 at the peak of the beaver trapping years. He wrote the book when he was 85 at the end of the 19th century. Fantastic stories of fighting Indians as well as living among them. He really respected the honest and friendly tribes, but hated the war mongering, thieving and lying tribes. I suppose factual accounts like that would be verboten today.
The Bobbsey Twins were written by a syndicate using a nomme de plume. (first series to do so I think). LikeThe Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew they are updated to fit the times as more are released.
I read my mom’s Bobbsey Twins books when I was young and found them a fascinating snapshot of the olden days. It was when I bought some for my kids and was disappointed in the blandness of the current version that I looked into why they had changed so and discovered that there was never a Laura Lee Hope
My middle school daughter loves to read and volunteers almost daily at the local library (very small town). I’m beyond disappointed in the shallowness of current young adult/children’s literature. In the 80’s my favorite books were the Little House series, The Betsy-Tacy series and other older books. The only series I owned was the Little House series (Christmas present my second grade year), the rest I found in the local library. Bigger libraries still have those two series, but several years ago they got rid of most of the older books throughout our library system. The smaller libraries have very few older books. I know that only because a librarian confided her disappointment to me that the board ordered them to do so. I was looking for books we had previously checked out (children’s books by Maj Lindman) and they were all gone by order of the library system’s board. She was very upset about that change.
This is beginning to look like the USSR, which would recall all school history textbooks and issue new copies after a leadership change. I joked that the title would be “The USSR: Our Changing Past”.
While we’re at this sort of thing, could the liberals pull Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer?
The first of the series was written the year that I was born,1932,-———and the way things are going with this type of nonsense I’m glad that I lived when I lived.
Utter madness today-——erasing history.
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I was in grade school in the 1950’s when they began to teach us about communism and the USSR.
We learned how local Party cells carried out their subversive work to undermine America. Communist librarians were seen removing books critical of Marx, Lenin, and the Soviet Union.
This is nothing new. The CPUSA began propagandizing the schools in the 1930’s with the tacit approval of FDR & his New Deal. The Popular Front was communism with a human face even while Stalin was carrying out his inhuman purges.
These people are trying to `unperson’ someone just like those doctored photos showing Stalin standing next to...an empty space.
It’s a culture war, and it goes on. But we still have elections and we still have our guns.
“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Old White George
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