This is crazy racist:

[applegrove]

— (@billkittle.bsky.social) 2026-05-16T00:22:35.673Z

[sop]

1. Nathan Bedford Forrest's memoir will remain on school library shelves, though.

[applegrove]

2. Sounds like a real beauty.

[niyad]

3. what is? there is nothing there.

[applegrove]

5. Knox County in Tennessee is removing Alex Hailey's books like Roots from school libraries.

Haley lived in Knoxville.

[LoisB]

7. Oops. I was typing a response to niyad and didn't see that you had already done

so. Sorry.

[applegrove]

9. The more the merrier!!!

[niyad]

8. Ah, the image is there now. It did not show up for me earlier.

[LoisB]

6. It is a picture of Alex Haley and a picture of his book "Roots' with the notation that

"Knox County (TN) is removing Alex Haley's books from its school libraries". Haley lived in Knoxville and is being dishonored in his own hometown.

[usonian]

4. What will they think of next? Here.

Note: Kentucky ain't Tennessee, but I had the graphic already done for another post.
The Jim Crow "works" in this context.

[RainCaster]

10. I know where I will not go on vacation

None of those deep red racist gerrymandering states will ever get a dollar of my travel budget.

[Joinfortmill]

11. Despicable

[surfered]

12. Trying desperately to revise history. It won't work.

[highplainsdem]

13. The book was banned because chapter 84 describes a slave being raped by her owner.

From WATE Knoxville via Yahoo News:

Removal of Pulitzer Prize winner “Roots” from Knox County Schools causes backlash
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/removal-pulitzer-prize-winner-roots-231523780.html

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Knox County Schools has banned “Roots,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel by Alex Haley that recounts the multi-generational struggle of his family, starting from the mid-Atlantic slave trade.

Under Tennessee’s Age-Appropriate Materials Act, parents can file a report if they believe classroom materials are inappropriate. KCS banned “Roots” because of Chapter 84, which describes the rape of an enslaved woman by a plantation owner.