2006-11-16 05:10:16 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Banned? Where? In your school district?
Generally speaking, books are banned when fascists have their way.
2006-11-16 05:18:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou was challenged quite often due to the poet’s descriptions of being raped as a young girl and because it “preaches bitterness and hatred against whites.” This autobiographical novel dealing with incest has been consistently challenged for containing profanity and pornographic language. The novel was accused by a Texas school of containing “gross evils.”
2006-11-16 14:15:01 · answer #2 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If bluemanticore is right, you need to convince your school district to ban the old testament from the library. There are plentiful descriptions of rape, violence and hatred between peoples detailed in there.
Yikes! Do the people who ban these books know the thin line between banning and burning? It's only one vowel and one consonant thick!!???
2006-11-16 14:42:45 · answer #3 · answered by Rico Toasterman JPA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the "land of freedom of speech" is a fairy tale!
2006-11-16 16:04:43 · answer #4 · answered by I Drum 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋