Does the book’s language make white people (that’s what this is about) uncomfortable, or does the books *content* make them uncomfortable?

To be fair there is some problematic stuff in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The word “n*****-lover” is used a lot. One old woman screams at Scout that her dad Atticus is a “n*****-lover” and we’re later told that the old woman should be admired because she was trying to get over a morphine addiction at the time. I can see…

Sometimes the point of great literature is to make people uncomfortable in hopes of making people reconsider their preconceived notions. People who aren’t willing to do that don’t really want a proper education. My mother is from Mississippi. She is glad though that her parents moved from there when she was her kid.…

I had a roommate in University from Biloxi, MS (this was in Canada). When I asked her about her hometown she told me that racism really wasn’t a problem because the black people did the black people stuff and the white people did the white people stuff. I was like, uh...

Just say “white people.”

I totally agree with you. I remember being made to read the non-fiction book Brian’s Song in school. I don’t remember us reading it aloud, but I remember being hurt, furious, and confused - all at once when reading it. This fucking asshole Piccolo couldn’t refrain from calling a teammate and supposed friend “nigger”,…

You: Can you please consider the effect on the single black student when she has to hear her white counterparts use the N-word 219 times?

(White) People have used the “it’s too harsh” justification to not teach such things as The Trail Of Tears, Freedom Summer, Slavery In America, the truth behind The Alamo (slavery) etc. forever and a day

This is all part of their “it was Obama’s ATF that approved this!” attack line. The ATF’s decision was based on statutory limits on their powers, so even if they wanted to regulate them they couldn’t (and Republicans would have thrown a massive fit if they tried), so it’s really disingenuous how now they’re trying to…

Hollywood can be so self absorbed and cannibalistic, I am guessing a movie about this HW scandal could be coming to theaters in the next 6 months.

Actors in Shakespeare’s day were all male, but I would still not be surprised if you were right.

I can’t even breathe, I love her so much.

I wonder how much breaking her non-disclosure is going to cost?

Nobody with access is willing to take a hit for the country?’’

They can feel any way they want to — I notice you’ve made that protestation twice now, about how paramount you yourself feel their precious feelings should be in this discourse.