firecat

I can see the OP's point. But, I think the book is an important book.

For a girl like me, who lived in a predominantly white and Native American area, the book was important because I got a glimpse of how ugly racism can truly be. I grew up with an extended family full of racists. For example, my mom's side of the family called Brazil nuts "n***** toes" and that word was thrown around liberally whenever talking about Black people. And that was just the stuff towards the Blacks.

But, to me, this was normal. I don't really think I thought about how wrong it was until I read that book. I didn't realize how far racism could go. It opened my eyes.

So to remove the books from the schools completely... I don't know if that's a good thing. But, I can see how it can easily reinforce racism by letting people pretend that things are all better now.

I think that, for its best impact, it needs to be taught in a racial studies class. But you know as well as I do that the conservatives would go insane if any public school tried to institute a racial studies class. -sighs-

So... I don't know. I can see the point of the post. I just don't know what the right solution is.

And I think I'm babbling. So I'm going to STFU. -laughs-