Alabama Republican Wants to Ban Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' from Schools
Source: Atlantic Wire
Bowing to Tea Party pressure, Alabama State Senator Bill Holtzclaw said this week that he thinks The Bluest Eye, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's novel about a little black girl who wishes for blue eyes, should be banned in schools. He only made this statement after GOP members criticized him for opposing a repeal of the federal Common Core standards. The Bluest Eye is on the 11th grade reading list for the Common Core, a set of standards that has been adapted by more than 40 states.
Hotzclaw told the Alabama Media Group, "The book is just completely objectionable, from language to the content." The novel is seemingly the most controversial on the 11th grade reading list, and thus, an easy one to criticize there have been efforts to ban it in schools and libraries since it was written in 1970. It does contain graphic scenes of forced sex (which the conservative blog Politichicks helpfully provided context-free in a post titled " WARNING: Graphic) Common Core Approved Child Pornography" .
The Common Core is the federal Department of Education's effort to make American schools more competitive on the world stage and more standardized across states. It began as a bipartisan project governors and state superintendents brought together a panel of experts to write the standards, which focus on critical thinking as opposed to rote memorization.
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JustAnotherGen
(31,802 posts)He wants it banned because anyone who reads that book understands the "condition" of a black little girl - thrown away and discarded because ofthe color of her skin.
It also has a section where that little girls father is forced to have sex in front of white men - by white men - with his first innocent love.
It's ugly - but no more ugly than Huck Finn.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)I am guessing he hasn't and never will.
Sometimes that can make a huge difference. Might help if one of those useless, gummint dependent teachers explained it to him also.
Gore1FL
(21,127 posts)He probably read that part twice.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)i`d say many of them are far more intelligent than billy boy holtzclaw.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Has he got a list?
durablend
(7,460 posts)"LERNINS FER GOD HATIN LIBRULS!"
blue sky at night
(3,242 posts)if only they could ban little black girls...and their moms and dads and brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and grandfathers and grandmothers......
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)To be banned in Bama, that is.
truthisfreedom
(23,143 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)freedom-loving, pro-constitution credentials, the Tea Party LURVES them some book banning and vote-stealing...
Mopar151
(9,978 posts)As are most of the "anti-communists", dating back to the 30's. It is the rhetoric of Marx they are scared to death of - their deepest fears are not for loss of freedom, but of economic justice and a rule of just law.
Their true icons are not Franklin, Washington, or Jefferson, but Dherzinsky and Beria. Their idea of "fighting for freedom" is joining the goons, thugs, scabs and head-busters that keep us po' trash in our place.