Up in Michigan The Livingston Organization for Values in Education (Guess what their acronym is!) are living by Blake’s Golden Rules. The group wanted the books out of the school curriculum, The Board of Education disagreed, so they did what any sane person who knows what’s best for everyone would do, they told state prosecutors teachers were, in effect, providing pornography for their students. Oddly enough, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan decided to get the FBI involved, who are now “reviewing it.”
I’m not so sure this title is exactly accurate, since in the story they say the FBI has only “received the complaint” and is only reviewing it, not actually investigating. But hey, let’s go with it, if they’re not concerned with facts then I won’t be either, this is, after all, for the children!
about that place …
I gew up in Michigan and the town where this is happening is Howell. Which has the distinction of being a regional headquarters for the Klan. No kidding.
It’s really bad up there. I never met a single black Michigander that was willing to even drive through the place.
It’s actually a punchline among natives in the state, i.e. “ … , what are you? From Howell?”
Not a lot of clear thinking happening up there.
Notice that they didn’t go after Henry Miller. Just Toni Morrison and Richard Wright. Hmmmm.
since they opened the story with “the bluest eye”:
I’d rather think the fact that 11-year-olds get raped is more pornographic than a book about 11-year-olds getting raped. I wish these people put their energy into protecting kids from physical harm, instead of from learning that they might be at risk from physical harm.
</preaching to choir>
Yeah; I read about a bit about that
First Amendment Center has an article on it as well. I figure: Okay, well, Morrison and Wright are “niggers”, and Vonnegut would certainly qualify as a “nigger lover”, and I don’t know who Erin Gruwell is but with a word like “freedom” in the title it’s a safe bet she’s one of those evil, commie, pinko faggot ultra-left wing librul trashbags who want to poison the minds of little children and make them unfit for slavery by teaching them how to think for themselves.