Banning of Books - When will it Ever End

     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.