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RVN VET71

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16. The same people who drool over the OT sex scenes are outraged, I tells ya, outraged that Haley would
Fri May 15, 2026, 10:58 PM
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describe a white man raping a black woman. I would hope that some enterprising, pissed off Liberal might consider bringing that up -- in a court of law. If you can ban Haley's book because of a rape scene demonstrating the ugliness of enslavement, than why not a ban on incest (Lot's girls) and masturbation (Onan)? Or the townspeople of Sodom demanding -- apparently -- that the angels visiting Lot be given to them that they might, ahem, "know" them -- or the fact that Lot offered up his daughters to the mob for gang rape?

I can't believe the low browed anti-christ's in Tennessee will get away with their ban on "Roots," without a counter suit to ban the equally filthy bible as well. And don't get me wrong, I appreciate both books, but Haley's speaks directly to the American experience, the Bible speaks to love and hate, cruelty and kindness, reasoned empathy and cold-blooded savagery universally.

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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
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