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Today in Book Banning - j.p. - 01-27-2022
Wentzville School Board bans acclaimed novel from high school libraries over obscenity complaints | Education | stltoday.com
Quote:“The Bluest Eye” tells the story of a young Black girl growing up during the Great Depression who longs for blue eyes because she feels ugly and oppressed because of her skin color. Morrison, who died in 2019, said she wrote the book in the late 1960s to show the psychological damage caused by racism.
RE: Today in Book Banning - k.d. - 01-27-2022
The book wasn't banned from the SCHOOL library because the low IQ Negress didn't have blue eyes. I suppose if I lived in Ireland and didn't have freckles and red hair I would feel oppressed and ugly, too - if I was in 2nd grade.
RE: Today in Book Banning - j.p. - 01-27-2022
Bullshit. It's a high school.
If the school was really worried about obscenities, then Twain, Harper Lee, JD Salinger. F. Scott Fitzgeralds and countless works of other renown authors would be banned.
RE: Today in Book Banning - k.d. - 01-27-2022
I think you should go have a talk with those schools that allow those authors in their schools.