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Author Topic: Mississippi school drops "To Kill a Mockingbird" from reading list.  (Read 2334 times)

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I think i agree with he the twitter comment "if to kill a mockingbird makes you uncomfortable you should probably be reading to kill a mockingbird".

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/mississippi-school-board-pulls-kill-mockingbird-reading-list-n811136

The school board in Biloxi, Mississippi, has pulled "To Kill a Mockingbird" from an eighth-grade reading list after receiving complaints about wording in the book.

Last week, Kenny Holloway, the board's vice president, said there was language in the book that "makes people uncomfortable."

"We can teach the same lesson with other books," Holloway said, according to the The Sun Herald newspaper. "It's still in our library. But they're going to use another book in the eighth-grade course."

The Biloxi School District didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

The book will still be available to check out from the library and is still listed on the school website as part of the eighth-grade English Learning Arts program.

The Sun Herald reported that a reader said the decision stems around the book's use of the n-word. A syllabus posted on the school system's website says questions to focus on include "What does it mean to be racist?" and "What is the difference between tradition and ignorance?"

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, written by the late Harper Lee and published in 1960, centers on racial inequality and injustices in the Deep South. In 2009 and 2011, the American Library Association listed the novel as one of the "Top Ten Most Challenged Books."

The move has sparked national outrage on social media and a debate on discussing racism in schools.

"When school districts remove 'To Kill A Mockingbird' from the reading list, we know we have real problems," Arne Duncan, who was education secretary during most of President Barack Obama's administration, said on Twitter.
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Re: Mississippi school drops "To Kill a Mockingbird" from reading list.
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2017, 02:01:50 pm »
Very sad.  I was fortunate to have gone on European cruises the past two years and found the culture, behavior and manners and overall intelligence far better there and I always felt safe, though things can happen anywhere.  But we have good people here and need to continue to be activists, in any way we can, to end the lunacy right wingers and religious zealots with evil in their hearts, continue to to bombard good people with daily.  Whether it be cultural issues, LGBT rights, health care availability and tragically high costs, taxes and so on it will be a tough fight as so many Americans inexplicably vote against their own best interests.
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Re: Mississippi school drops "To Kill a Mockingbird" from reading list.
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2017, 06:23:14 pm »
I think i agree with he the twitter comment "if to kill a mockingbird makes you uncomfortable you should probably be reading to kill a mockingbird".

Americans are not known for being rational decision-makers. :-D  These concerned citizens of Biloxi were upset about a character's racist language in a book meant to teach the negative aspects of racism.  I would bet my next month of medication that those "concerns" were not raised by racial minorities.

Whether it be cultural issues, LGBT rights, health care availability and tragically high costs, taxes and so on it will be a tough fight as so many Americans inexplicably vote against their own best interests.

The New York Times ran an interesting piece in April about why so many working class Americans were supporting a President whose policies will harm them. 

"The answer, experts say, is partisanship. Party affiliation has become an all-encompassing identity that outweighs the details of specific policies."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/upshot/why-americans-vote-against-their-interest-partisanship.html

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