It is downright unAmerican to allow anyone to tell you what books you can or cannot read.–Dana Stabenow
Whoopi Goldberg has your reading back:
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I might get into that myself, maybe read a little from A Study in Scarlet, which last year was banned for being anti-Mormon.
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Go here to see the top ten most frequently challenged books of 2011.
(The Hunger Games is anti-ethnic? Who knew?)
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I love the ALA’s frequently challenged book list. This is a great source for excellent books. Many of these books are challenged because they ask us to look at something from a different point of view; to see another’s feelings and opinions as equally valid as our own.
To Kill a Mockingbird is racist???? And what moron came to that conclusion?
I’m reminded of a Very Politically Correct woman who had nothing better to do and announced to all and sundry one Sunday at a flea market that the opera Porgy and Bess was racist. I had just seen the Seattle Opera production (the one she was talking about) and could not for the life of me figure out how she managed to get that out of a stunning production. I pointed out to her that the libretto was at least co-written by W.E.B. DuBois, which made it not even remotely likely to be racist. Of course…she had no idea who DuBois was…
Which in my experience is about the level of intelligence used on the banned books list. Too many Americans are terrified of thinking. Or, more likely, incapable of it. Which, come to think of it is why they’re terrified of it!