EAG: ACCOMACK, Va. – The Accomack County school board voted to return two American literary classics to school shelves and classrooms after initially banning the books because of a complaint about language.
Accomack County Public Schools officials removed the classic American novels “The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” from classrooms and libraries late last month after a complaint about racial slurs in the books.
Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin” – used in schools as a shining example of American literature since it was published in the United States in 1885 – contains 219 racial slurs. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee, has also been widely used in schools since 1960, and it contains 48 bad words, Delmarva Now reports. more
Boo Radley meets Nigger Jim. I guess the cretins finally understood the books for their meaning, instead of just looking for ‘bad words’ to censor.
I wouldn’t be too sure about that Nate. They’re only back on the shelves.
Just wait until some Snowflake actually sees someone reading one…
In the classic words of Moby Dick: “I got your Huckleberry fin right here.”
In the classy werds of Barry O’Bama: “I could fit a whale in my ass.”
To Kill A Mockingbird is a travesty. It uses a stereotype of Deliverance type white rednecks as racists. While black on white rape is epidemic, the reverse is almost non existent. Yet for the sake of heaping on the white guilt, poor Tom, a cripple no less, is falsely accused of rape by the local white trash.
Don’t forget to throw in the trashy lying daughter with a very weird undercurrent of incest.
This POS is right up there with “Guess who’s coming to Dinner?” and “Roots”
Why not a film of the true life horror story of the rape and murder of the Newsoms? Don’t google it if you have a weak stomach. Yet this is real life. Bet your ass if a gang of whites did what these scumbags did to the Newsoms, it would be front page, above the fold for an entire year.
Instead, to stoke both white guilt and black outrage, bullshit like To Kill a Mockingbird has to make shit up.
IMO they banned it for the wrong reason.