Accomac
County Public Schools in Virginia, USA has temporarily pulled two
American classics (“To Kill a Mockingbird” and
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”) from the shelves due to a
complaint from one parent about the use of the N word and other
racial slurs. She tells the board that her biracial son, a high
school student, struggled getting through a page that was riddled
with a racial slur.
“So
what are we teaching our children? We’re validating that these
words are acceptable, and they are not acceptable by any means,”
the parent said.
Victoria
Coombs, a mother of two, told 10 On Your Side she agrees that books
with offensive racial slurs should not be read in schools.
“It’s
not right to put that in a book, let alone read that to a child,”
she said. My god in 2016 there are still people out
there that ban books.
This
is why its so important to protect history, literature and knowledge
from people like this.
