‘Racist’ classics banned from schools: ‘To Kill
a Mockingbird,’ ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ ‘Of Mice
and Men,’ and others
BizPac Review,
by
Vivek Saxena
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
11/19/2020 1:20:32 AM
A number of classic novels that have long been a staple of school curriculum have been axed from California’s Burbank County because of concerns about racism.
“Until further notice, teachers in the area will not be able to include on their curriculum Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Theodore Taylor’s The Cay and Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,” Newsweek confirmed late last week.
Four parents, three of them reportedly black, complained that the novels posed “potential harm” to the Burbank Unified School District’s 400 black students.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
pixelero 11/19/2020 1:27:19 AM (No. 610054)
Firemen helping out again. What a herd of fools.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
rockeysroomie 11/19/2020 1:32:42 AM (No. 610058)
It's not Burbank County. It's the city of Burbank and the city is located in Los Angeles County. Having said that, these guys are crazy. This reminds me of the book Fahrenheit 451.I wonder if they're going to ban that book too.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 11/19/2020 1:33:03 AM (No. 610059)
Totalitarian thugs, pretending to be against "racism"....what they are is racists against white people.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 11/19/2020 1:43:41 AM (No. 610066)
This is the kind of thing that really tears at my heart!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
snakeoil 11/19/2020 1:46:37 AM (No. 610068)
Wonder if Little Black Sambo made the cut. In grade school I enjoyed singing Shortin Bread and Old Black Joe.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Highlander 11/19/2020 2:57:33 AM (No. 610079)
Banned books will still be available, purchased in seedy dark stores, in plain brown wrappers. However porn is freely available for all age groups, thanks to the Internet.
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Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird to a lesser degree are about black men escaping to freedom to be with their wives and children. Hardly racist stories. Yes they both contain the N word but so do most rap songs.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
smokincol 11/19/2020 3:47:46 AM (No. 610089)
these books are too American to be read by our propagandized youth. besides, anything published after 1960 tends toward the new-think anti-American. schools should go back to the novels like 1984, Animal Farm, A Tale of Two Cities, Last of the Mohicans, The Sun Also Rises, Robinson Crusoe anything by Rudyard Kipling or Robert Frost and so many more wholesome novels written by the Great Authors. children today are being deprived of some of the best reading of their lives by not reading the classics.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rather Read 11/19/2020 5:40:26 AM (No. 610127)
I'm a librarian. Every year the ALA has Banned Books Week and there's a strong undercurrent that it's only the evil conservatives who want books banned. Nothing could be further from the truth as this story shows.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 11/19/2020 7:30:02 AM (No. 610183)
I suspect though that “Heather Had Two Mommies” is mandatory reading.......we’re doomed!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jinx 11/19/2020 8:11:23 AM (No. 610218)
Do they allow their children to listen to Rap music? Those Rap singers use the N word all the time. They also use other derogatory words and make millions of dollars. I saw a video last week of Sasha Obama singing or lipsinging those very same words at a party. Let's axe the rap singers who write that trash.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
czechlist 11/19/2020 8:14:57 AM (No. 610226)
I'm sure Uncle Tom's Cabin is perfectly acceptable since if written or uttered by a black the word is perfecrty acceptable. t
Question when you say or write the word what word goes through your head? It hasn't been purged it is only suppressed.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/19/2020 8:26:58 AM (No. 610243)
It's California, so - grain of salt. Chances are that the offended baby mamas never read these classics. The woke people of this country have now encouraged blacks to be so uppity that they will be demanding that the characters in these books be rewritten as white slaves with peanut-sized brains and no dancing talent. I believe a series of movies that featured gun-toting gorillas riding on horses developed this very theme.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 11/19/2020 8:54:15 AM (No. 610298)
I came THIS close to posting something about an earthquake but thought better of it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
philsner 11/19/2020 9:09:46 AM (No. 610320)
Yep. the left claims Trump is hiltler, but they are the ones burning books.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 11/19/2020 9:46:02 AM (No. 610366)
Wait. Wait! Don't you know what happens to banned books? Anybody here 65-75 that did NOT read Lady Chatterly's Lover or Catcher in the Rye? (To the kiddos in the audience, those banned books become memorized. Now find a copy of Fahrenheit 451)
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/19/2020 9:55:13 AM (No. 610389)
Apparently the book-banners have never actually read these books. To Kill a Mockingbird is about what we would now call true “racial justice”. It is about a black man, wrongly accused of rape, and the white man who defends him at the risk of his own family.
How is that racist?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
hershey 11/19/2020 9:56:43 AM (No. 610390)
To be replaced by Trotsky and Lennin I suppose? Where is the San Andreas Fault when we need it?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 11/19/2020 9:57:05 AM (No. 610391)
I rolled my eyes so hard I saw the back of my head.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LadyHen 11/19/2020 10:32:43 AM (No. 610417)
I'm guessing none of these parents or the progressive administrators and teachers who insanely listen to them have ever read Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury's soul must be banging his head against his beloved typewriter wherever he is now.
He was and still is one of my favorite writers. He said "People ask me to predict the Future, when all I want to do is prevent it".
One interesting unintended consequence of this could be that teens have a tendency to get interested in what they CAN'T have. It's just the nature of teens to be curious about stuff deemed inappropriate for them by authorities. All parents know this. Most adults with 2 brain cells to rub together do too. These books will probably get read by many who would have never bothered had they been assigned them in class.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 11/19/2020 10:38:51 AM (No. 610429)
Actually, #16, I never bothered with either of them.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 11/19/2020 10:39:07 AM (No. 610431)
#16, and in the middle of your age range.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 11/19/2020 10:56:21 AM (No. 610451)
As I explained my Alfred E Newman covid mask to the many that recently commented- I probably would not have become an avid reader were it not for Mad Magazine.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 11/19/2020 11:00:05 AM (No. 610455)
Let's just have ourselves a good'ole book burning like those folks did in Germany back in the 1930s.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Violet 11/19/2020 3:32:25 PM (No. 610725)
Not so long ago, "To Kill a Mockingbird" was a civil-rights, human-rights, must-read commentary on life in a prejudiced Southern town. Now it's being banned because of offensive language and themes? The times, they are a'changin'. We are so delicate and easily offended that we can't handle raw, real representations of history.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
radrelic 11/19/2020 6:40:42 PM (No. 610902)
Tribalists trying to change the commonly accepted narrative of history of civilization. Cultural appropriation to the max? How greater the story if they accepted the full history of the rise of their race IMO.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
OK state mom 11/19/2020 7:20:37 PM (No. 610928)
I am in a well received community theater group. The fall after Ferguson we did To Kill a Mockingbird. This production had been planned for almost a year. The theater board was threatened by local Black pastors with picketing if we proceeded with the play as written. Young cast members dropped out when they finally read the play. The board elected to clean up the language. The worst word used was "ne.gro". During the time period of TKAM ne.gro was NOT a racial slur but no one took that into consideration. No one asked the Black cast members what they thought. They were all very well educated professionals. Had they asked they would have found out sticking to the original wording was their preference. We had a "meet the cast and director" session after the last performance. High school students attended with their teachers. One teacher was Black. His words were very eloquent stating the play was ruined for him by cleaning up the language.
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