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if they only knew how tkm helps children to NOT be racist - children in some schools around here get extra credit for reading it over summer break - both ours have.

if this kid feels inferior it's more thank likely because he is, but it has nothing to do with skin color.

I actually preferred Tom Sawyer to Huckleberry Finn, but that's just me.

Anyone else think Tin-tin just didn't want to read the book and needed a convenient excuse? And mama? The book isn't responsible for his lousy grades. His laziness is.

Tinashe Makunike? Wouldn't a name like that alone make one feel kind of 'Inferior and undermined' anyway, regardless of their 'color'? Why don't they just bus this kid to a school where he will 'fit in' better, and probably get better grades too? Oh wait, his grades won't be any better, just marginalized along with the rest of his classmates.

Also, the day they come for my copy of "Mockingbird", they had better be well armed, even though I have my doubts about Harper Lee being the author. Same goes for any other book I choose to protect.

Wow. I wonder if, as a Catholic, I could use the same tact for Dan Brown's "The DaVinci Code" and "Angels and Demons." I find them offensive works of fiction.

Nah, how about if I just don't buy it; or, better yet, use it as an opportunity to tell someone how it falsely portrays the Catholic Church and the historical record?

They will replace it with "The Collected Writing of Reverend Wright and Reverend Farakhan".

Aren't you sick and tired of this crap!

Obamaducation at its finest.

I would now like to read commentary from all the liberals who were gnashing their teeth in outrage over the fictional claims of Sarah Palin banning books in the library.

They should all be equally outraged by this.

The left is all about rejecting reality. Reject reality and capitalism will reject you. So BO comes along to fix it for all the rejects. Sure.

But rejection of reality is a necessary stage from which liberals discuss just about anything, especially race.

Racism is a favorite topic for liberals. But in fact, discussion of race by liberals rarely goes beyond personal testimonies about how non-racist they really, truly are, and who might be the real racist in their midst.
The specter of race hangs over the head of liberal like the Sword of Damocles. Race for the liberal is captivating and restraining and like breathing fetid air.

Thinking or speaking about race is important to liberals bc most have never experienced the freedom of thought that comes with learning to grapple reality without becoming "offended".... (My goodness gracious!)

Liberals don't know what its like to be able to speak and move freely in their society, but they have a sense that something is missing.
They are like goldfish that cannot conceive of the ocean, but can see outside their glass bowl to something else. But they absolutely cannot leave.

Race will always be compelling to the left bc it empowers blacks to use victimhood and it empowers liberals to maintain a sense of intellectual superiority compared to the evil masses who must be advocating racism one way or the other. However both groups have adopted stunted ways of thinking in order to obtain their particular advantage.

Which is to say that that while a poor substitute for free thinking, a stunted "advantage" is about the only thing the liberal has left to deal with reality.
Which also explains why after all this talk about racism and slavery, we come full circle to find BO, a brand new massa.

Tinashe Makunike?

Maybe his momma should have named him Tom or Ted or even Tyrone.

The mutts (obama's word, not mine) are always whining about being treated differently and then they go and name their kids all these fake made-up tribal names.
Tell you what; I wouldn't hire anybody with that name, I don't care what color he/she/it is.

Care to wager that the kid can't read to his grade level?

welcome to the negrofication of Amerika

Cliff47 beat me to it.

J, that was the first thing I thought...Sarah Palin and the false story. It won't even occur to them, though. God, I hate a hypocrite.

Tinashe - Southern African origin, meaning "God is with us." So it's an actual name, though certainly very "ethnic". Perhaps God told him he didn't need to do his reading assignment. Were his parents born in Africa, I wonder? That would explain the name. Of course, if his parents feel themselves members of a "victim" group, that would also explain the name.

Of course, he could just read the damn book - even if it is racially offensive, it's only a book. It's supposed to make you think, which is why it considered a literary classic. This particular book is all about racism in post-depression America, portraying it in a negative light, not holding it up as an example of proper behavior. This is assuming, of course, that he 1) can read, and 2) can think. That's probably a "sort of" and an "unlikely", though I hope I'm wrong on both counts.

Shooter1001, you have hit on something that I've seen written as pointers to minorities looking to improve their hiring chances. One of the frequently mentioned tips is if your name is very ethnic or unusual, put a "normal" name on your resume so as not to get weeded out on the basis of your name. Their contention is usually that this will get you past any "racists" in the HR departments of the companies where you have applied. I have always contended that these companies have a very good reason to worry. Given the media's penchant to rally to the aid of members of the protected minorities, and the Al Sharptons of the world, and the fact that you have to pay to defend yourself when you get sued, even if you are innocent, I could forgive a company if they didn't want to hire a minority. Not because they are racist as such, but just because they don't want to deal with all of the baggage that goes with it. Even if the employee in question doesn't raise a fuss, Jesse Jackson will do it for him. Who wants that kind of grief? Yet another case of the professional race grievance mongers actually doing more harm to their "people" than good.

I can't believe this!
That is one of my all- time favorite novels.
It is all about the evils of racism, pretty much the only characters who use that word are either 1. Cruel racists (i.e. Bob Ewell), or 2. Children who don't realize what it really means (i.e. Scout in the beginning of the book, before Atticus firmly yet lovingly sets her straight on the matter). At one point, as I recall, Atticus even says that it is a word that ignorant people use to degrade black people.
Speaking of Atticus, he is one of the best role models I can recall from all of literature. He is shown as kind, intelligent, compassionate, brave, and driven by a strong sense of morals. I remember in 2003, when AMC did that TV special on the top 50 heroes and villains in movies, I was so pleased to see Atticus make the #1 spot in the Heroes category. He's the kind of character kids SHOULD read about!

I wonder if that kid or his mother like listening to rap artists who sling around that word every 5- 10 seconds in their songs?

We were working where there were no black people. A lot of people had never known or had anything to do with blacks. The prevalent feeling was pretty much that blacks were just like everybody else and had families and lives somewhere else and were often seen on TV. But the company decided we needed diversity training.

It brought the most racist, hateful black man one could imagine into a 2 day workshop where he ranted at us and called us racists and threatened us. He accused us of every kind of bias and crime that had happened in the last 400 years. We listened to this crap for 2 solid days.

When the workshop started, there was only one racist--the facilitator. When the workshop ended, there was 26 racists--the facilitator and all who had to attend.

Later when I did manage groups of blacks, it took a long time and a hell of a lot of effort to get over my "diversity training" and to be fair and just again.

Hatred has a source and it is reflected. It is important for both races to understand that when you give somebody a reason to hate you--they will.
And it won't be just you. It will be anybody else who looks like you.

Im suprised there isnt a protest against the current season of "24" where a group of burly black African thugs have captured the Whitehouse and are currently bitch slapping the first woman President who bears a striking resemblance to Hillary Clinton.

As a Southerner, I have had To Kill A Mockingbird thrown in my face as an example of Southern ignorance and I came to dispise the book. But years later, I learned that it was really about RACIAL ignorance and I now understand and value the story's message.

I love to read pre-war fiction, it helps me understand history better.

Banning books? A moonbat? Say it aint so :o I expect MSNBC to send Olbermann and Matthews ASAP to interview everyone in this persons town to see if it's true. Must see T.V.

On second thought, no need to over-interpret this article; liberals don't read books anyway.

I think that it should be banned. The only way that we are going to be able to move on and evolve as a culture, a society, as the human race is to consign such garbage to the dustbin of history.

Tinashe and her mammy should be banned!!
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Um -- If you follow the link to the original story, you'll find that it appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post and that the episode occurred in Heywood, Rochdale, just north of Manchester -- England. The school is apparently parochial, since it's called Holy Family College, and Tinashe apparently had a good record to this point, since he was a prefect and was studying advanced subjects. This seems to be a rather odd case of using other people's words to hurt yourself.

I think that it should be banned. The only way that we are going to be able to move on and evolve as a culture, a society, as the human race is to consign such garbage to the dustbin of history.

Posted by: cave ahht at March 3, 2009 4:08 PM

More moonbat cesorship. These people are would be laughable if they weren't so scary.

"More moonbat cesorship. These people are would be laughable if they weren't so scary."
I know. I was wondering when one of the moonbat trolls would come on here and advocate banning that American classic.

cave ahht, have you even read the book or seen the movie?
Your reply is especially asinine because, as I mentioned in my earlier post, Atticus Finch (The book's central character, and the character portrayed in the most positive light in the book) is not a racist at all, and is shown to be an excellent role model for readers. He shows how one doesn't need superpowers or a black belt in karate to be a hero; Just basic courage, kindness, and commitment to morals. Such a character should NEVER be "Consigned to the dustbin of history."

Moonbats are victims of their own.....victimhood. They also procreate at a prolific rabbit (roach) like way. Don't you know, being white is soooooooo old school and passe; black is where it's at baby & if you don't assimilate and LOVVVVVE all darkies then you are raaaaacist. all whites should be ashamed for even being born - dUH!!

Seems to be a Zimbabwean name. Good thing they came over to tell us about our racist literature.

Glancing around this site, there is a lot of hatred, bigotry and ignorance going on. God bless all of you, but honestly -- it's offensive as is gets.

Disgust at pc retardation and the indoctrination of minority children via Race Baiting 101 is not racist. Bitching about a book the little twerp probably can't even read, IS. Back on the short bus with both of them

Gary must be talking about the bigotry and intolerance expressed by those who want to ban books. Isn't that right, Gary?

Her ill-behaved son's bad grades based on a book? He is so caught up in that book he can't concentrate on studying but has to roam the streets, misbehave and generally act badly?

I thought it was just bad parenting or lack of parenting on her part. Stupid me. What we need is more nanny statism.

When I was a kid liberals taught that it was close-minded and possibly racist not to read To Kill a Mockingbird.
Now the same asinine ilk of liberal will teach that it is racist to read To Kill a Mockingbird.


or Huckleberry Finn

or Flashman

or And Then There Were None

or Dracula

Or dozens of other classics for the sake of the sensitivity of Tinashe and his/her enlightened mother.

"Enlightened" ...right. These scrubs wouldn't know Lenny Bruce from George Wallace.
This whole literature thing makes me sick to death of these liberals. Without literature and free speech we will all become as stupid as these liberal left-wing mouth-breathers.

And then you get these dimwitted idiots coming up with platitudes from the liberal's urinal like: "I think that it thould be banned. The only way that we are going to be able to move on and evolve ath a culture, a thothiety, ath the human rathe ith to conthign thuch garbage to the duthtbin of hithtory."

Hey liberace, where'd you get the "dustbin of history"? Did you make that up? Mind tell me who you're think you're quoting?
So you see yourself "standing athwart history, yelling stop!" do you?
you racist illiterate commie book-burning creep.

And by the way, all of you book-banning liberals out there who want to censor Americana, imagine Janis' CHEAP THRILLS album without R. Crumb doing the cover?
By your miserable, low racial standards Crumb never would have been able to publish a cartoon character drawn with an inked-in face.

Anyone with two neurons capable of making a synapse should stand against any and all censorship whatsoever.

And they'll take my copy of "The Unexpurgated Code" when they pry my cold, dead fingers from the dust-cover.

ass-wipes

"She claims the book is responsible for her ill-behaved son's lousy grades."

I would guess that the problem of her son's lousy grades start a lot closer to home.

Did... you actually read the source article? The kid had passing grades and an acceptable attendance record before this incident.

Never let facts get in the way of a good story, right? Pathetic.

What?? only one black students in the entire class??? Well, that's racist!

And where can I find a school like that? I'd like to teach there!!!

heehee

Never let facts get in the way of a good story, right? Pathetic.

How exactly did you come to conclusion that that fact derails the story? The story is all about how much of a bawwww fest this little entitlement drone made when he saw the opportunity to not have to go to class anymore because he was "offended." Being offended by a story about racial equality because it has some words that cause a negative connotation is the heighth of ignorance. Sounds like YOU were the one who ignored some facts here, bucko.

The kid probably read an actual history book and found out the bad guys in the anti-racist opus To Kill A Mockingbird would have almost certainly been members of the Democrat party - the party of the KKK and lynch mobs.. And the party, now, of Barack Obama. The cognitive dissonance is whatdid his grades in.

Maybe he needed it in "ebonics" so it would make sense.
The only black kid in class eh? Hmmm, Maybe he can't go back now because he displayed racisim by being "offended".
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