North Carolina School Board Bans Classic Novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Update: Ban Reversed)

[villain]

 

[ltheghost]

I swear North Carolina is starting to look and act like a modern day Slave State. What the fukk!?!?

 

[Box Cutta]

One of my favorite books and kid. Cacs are letting you know what their agenda for the future of black folk is. Its open season on blacks from all angles. Folks are still sleeping though.

It's time for everyone to take separatism seriously.

The black race is looked at too differently. We can't survive with other races. It's time for us to each go our own ways.

 

[Blackking]

I hate seeing this thread pop back up to the top. all these threads about racist shyt, and mass killings n shyt... and this is the only 1 that pisses me off.

 

[The Real]

only communists and facists ban books

and dont start your symantics

No need for semantics- it was right wing, conservative people who banned that book. So why did you bring up "commies?"

 

[muzikfrk75]

we won brehs....

For now

http://myfox8.com/2013/09/25/invisible-man-no-longer-banned-in-randolph-co-schools/

 

[Piff Perkins]

I bought that book when I was 8 because I thought it was about the Invisible Man from those old 60s horror movies. Read the first chapter as a kid and threw it in the bushes


then as a teen I read it and it blew me away. You gotta be real racist to say something like this:

“I didn’t find any literary value,” board member Gary Mason said at the meeting. “I’m for not allowing it to be available.”

word?

 

[No1]

Ban has been reversed.

But the school board decided to lift the ban on the book on Sept. 25, voting six to one in a special meeting to bring the novel back to Randolph County libraries.

According to Reuters, after hearing of the ban, a former Randolph County resident contacted “Invisible Man” publisher, Vintage Books, and asked them to supply free copies of the novel for high school students in the area. The publisher complied, and free copies were made available at a Books-A-Million location.

The American Library Association, one of the sponsors of the currently celebrated Banned Books Week, and the Kids’ Right to Read Project, wrote a letter to the Randolph County school board after the ban had been put in place, asking that the book be restored to school libraries.

During the special meeting, two teachers spoke to the board about what they considered to be the value of the novel in an attempt to persuade them to lift the ban. “Some of the students in our classrooms right now feel that same cloak of invisibility [as the ‘Invisible Man’ protagonist],” Justine Carter, who teaches English, said, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Matthew Lambeth, a school board member, told Reuters that after the ban was put in place, school staff had persuaded him that the novel was important for students to read.

“I felt like I came to a conclusion too quickly,” Lambeth said of his first vote.

After the school board reversed its decision, board member Gary Cook told the Los Angeles Times, “We may have been hammered on this and we may have made a mistake, but at least we’re big enough to admit it.”

Board chairman Tommy McDonald said he’d come to understand more about his duty as a member of the school board after the controversy.

“My job is to make sure that book is there whether I want to read it or not,” he told the Los Angeles Times.

 

[88m3]

lt's funny how cliche American their responses are.