To Kill A Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men temporarily removed from school required reading list

[highmindedhavi]

https://abc7.com/education/to-kill-a-mockingbird-4-other-novels-stir-outcry-in-burbank-schools/7936504/

[JI7]

1. The problem is racist white people . That kid mentioned in the article being racist

against the black girl didn't just learn it from these books. He probably learned it from his parents and other adults in his life .

The article mentions how teachers would deal with the N word. But the real problem is the parents at home who use it . More than 70 million of them.

[highmindedhavi]

2. you are correct

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Ban the racist kid, not the books!

[marble falls]

4. They're blaming the messenger. Those books made me aware of the casualness of racism ...

... in my life that occurred because I wasn't getting another, more full view of racism.

I learned racism from my grandfather and my dad, and started unlearning it from those books specifically. I heard the n-word a lot, and long before I ever read or heard it in school.

However, I understand Ms Helligar's well taken point: there are authors of color who can do the same function as literature and education about race in the US, and they need to be at least read along with the "classics".

[kacekwl]

6. It's amazing how stupid adults are.

Reading a book caused that kid to use the N word in that fashion. Most people who read these books have opened their eyes about racism unless they were taught different at home or elsewhere.