Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" was banned from a Mississippi school district. (AP)
It's not specifically true about banning the book in Mississippi since it is still available in school libraries. However, it has been dropped from the lesson plan for the book and that's the part about discomfiting people. Of course it may make some people uncomfortable in dealing with a difficult subject in a state which has had substantial trouble with it. That's what the book was supposed to do.
Administrators at the Biloxi School District announced early this week they were pulling the novel from the 8th-grade curriculum, saying they received complaints that some of the book’s language “makes people uncomfortable.”
The Sun Herald reported that the book was pulled from the lesson plan because the novel contained “the N word.”
Fox News: Mississippi school district pulls 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because it 'makes people uncomfortable
Zen Yogi: so what when the word would have been in common use at the time and the writing would have been false if it did not use it?
The Rockhouse doesn't support the whitewashing since the White Birds of Political Correctness were not successful in wiping out the original word but they're been eminently successful in spreading the "N-word" with all its latent meaning all over the place.
More importantly, any kerfuffle regarding the language only dodges past the racial injustice portrayed as that's a lesson every kid needs to learn and the 8th grade curriculum seems an excellent time to introduce it.
Zen Yogi: it's a shame
It is, mate, since their curriculum seems more a game of Dodgeball rather than any serious attempt to get the little monsters to think.
There's not a mountain of doom and gloom since relatively few states engage in this type of censorship and are mostly just examples of states rights gone wrong.
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