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What's next book burning? And why does it have to be presented a certain way? Seems a bit condescending to not let them think for themselves. Is it that bad that there is a high degree of danger to read it in a different light? Students should be allowed to analyze and approach it from more than one point of view or frame of reference. Let them make up their on mind!
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.People need to keep in mind what was happening in history and culture at the time a song or book was written and use that as a background for listening or reading.
No need to ban or change things...just understand and appreciate that like our own pasts, there are mistakes and horrible things but there are also good things...and all of it made us who we are today as individuals and as a culture.
If anything, books of controversial nature open up a dialog toward understanding and possibly changing things...you can't change what you don't know happened or is happening.
thinktwice
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Dec 10, 2018
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But if you bury it then generations later you can say that it never existed and the history that they will know and learn will be that of which you prefer and/or fits their narrative.
Even though in reality it undermines the necessity to learn from the mistakes our past and being that slavery and racism are two of our greatest mistakes it would be worse to set up their return pretending that actually never existed.
@48thRonin Exactly...by burying it, you take the chance that by human nature, it will rise again and repeat until the whole cycle is repeated over and over...yes, we don't learn some mistakes from the past, but we have learned a lot more than not...hiding our heads in the sand or banning does not make it go away...exposure, awareness, discussion, etc. will
Bloody hell. I thought the whole point of Mocking Bird was to point out the racist culture in Deep South USA and it’s impact upon the black community. Next history will be re-written to show that the slave trade was in fact a bourgeois/proletariat equal business arrangement to enhance the cotton trade in Europe.
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