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highplainsdem

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

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2026, 10:06 PM

11 hrs ago

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.

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This is crazy racist: [View all] applegrove 12 hrs ago OP

Nathan Bedford Forrest's memoir will remain on school library shelves, though. sop 12 hrs ago #1

Sounds like a real beauty. applegrove 12 hrs ago #2

In some of those counties they'll re erect the statues taken down fujiyamasan 8 hrs ago #27

Let them Whip-poor-will 3 hrs ago #29

what is? there is nothing there. niyad 11 hrs ago #3

Knox County in Tennessee is removing Alex Hailey's books like Roots from school libraries. applegrove 11 hrs ago #5

Oops. I was typing a response to niyad and didn't see that you had already done LoisB 11 hrs ago #7

The more the merrier!!! applegrove 11 hrs ago #9

Ah, the image is there now. It did not show up for me earlier. niyad 11 hrs ago #8

It is a picture of Alex Haley and a picture of his book "Roots' with the notation that LoisB 11 hrs ago #6

What will they think of next? Here. usonian 11 hrs ago #4

Yup.ghads electric_blue68 8 hrs ago #23

I know where I will not go on vacation RainCaster 11 hrs ago #10

Despicable Joinfortmill 11 hrs ago #11

Trying desperately to revise history. It won't work. surfered 11 hrs ago #12

The book was banned because chapter 84 describes a slave being raped by her owner. highplainsdem 11 hrs ago #13

Somehow I doubt that rape is a concept totally unknown thucythucy 10 hrs ago #15

The same people who drool over the OT sex scenes are outraged, I tells ya, outraged that Haley would RVN VET71 10 hrs ago #16

I should buy "Roots" jfz9580m 10 hrs ago #14

Roots is excellent Unwind Your Mind 10 hrs ago #18

Luke 4:24 NewLarry 10 hrs ago #17

That will make people want to read the book even more GenThePerservering 10 hrs ago #19

Heh!' You migh be right! electric_blue68 8 hrs ago #24

They're already taking black peoples voting rights away ChicagoTeamster 10 hrs ago #20

Unfortunately the KKK has never totally gone away electric_blue68 8 hrs ago #25

Are these shitbags removing the bible too? Because there's plenty of incest and rape in that thing. Dave Bowman 9 hrs ago #21

Not to mention murder galore. nt eppur_se_muova 8 hrs ago #22

Ugh. Donny and his racist Foghorn! And "permission slips" electric_blue68 8 hrs ago #26

Lee Atwater gave away the GOP's strategy a long time ago fujiyamasan 8 hrs ago #28