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applegrove

(133,299 posts) Fri May 15, 2026, 08:57 PM May 15

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— (@billkittle.bsky.social) 2026-05-16T00:22:35.673Z

I was born in 1982 and for an hour a day, instead of Social Studies, we would watch Roots from beginning to end. We had to write a paper on it order to even pass the 5th grade. Now theyâ€™re BANNING it. This shit is insane.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social) 2026-05-16T16:18:10.738Z

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This is crazy racist: [View all] applegrove May 15 OP

Nathan Bedford Forrest's memoir will remain on school library shelves, though. sop May 15 #1

Sounds like a real beauty. applegrove May 15 #2

In some of those counties they'll re erect the statues taken down fujiyamasan May 16 #27

Let them Whip-poor-will May 16 #29

what is? there is nothing there. niyad May 15 #3

Knox County in Tennessee is removing Alex Hailey's books like Roots from school libraries. applegrove May 15 #5

Oops. I was typing a response to niyad and didn't see that you had already done LoisB May 15 #7

The more the merrier!!! applegrove May 15 #9

Ah, the image is there now. It did not show up for me earlier. niyad May 15 #8

It is a picture of Alex Haley and a picture of his book "Roots' with the notation that LoisB May 15 #6

What will they think of next? Here. usonian May 15 #4

Yup.ghads electric_blue68 May 16 #23

When is the Old Crow gonna EAT some well deserved crow? BattleRow May 16 #31

When McDonalds serves it. usonian May 16 #35

I dunno. Wrong color bird. BattleRow May 16 #36

I know where I will not go on vacation RainCaster May 15 #10

Despicable Joinfortmill May 15 #11

Trying desperately to revise history. It won't work. surfered May 15 #12

The book was banned because chapter 84 describes a slave being raped by her owner. highplainsdem May 15 #13

Somehow I doubt that rape is a concept totally unknown thucythucy May 15 #15

The same people who drool over the OT sex scenes are outraged, I tells ya, outraged that Haley would RVN VET71 May 15 #16

Wonder how many Epstein victims were non white. BattleRow May 16 #32

Epstein and Maxwell may have been interested only in virginal white skin RVN VET71 May 17 #38

Thanks for your input. BattleRow May 17 #39

School libraries are caught in the crossfire gulliver May 16 #33

I should buy "Roots" jfz9580m May 15 #14

Roots is excellent Unwind Your Mind May 15 #18

Luke 4:24 NewLarry May 15 #17

That will make people want to read the book even more GenThePerservering May 15 #19

Heh!' You migh be right! electric_blue68 May 16 #24

They're already taking black peoples voting rights away ChicagoTeamster May 15 #20

Unfortunately the KKK has never totally gone away electric_blue68 May 16 #25

Are these shitbags removing the bible too? Because there's plenty of incest and rape in that thing. Dave Bowman May 15 #21

Not to mention murder galore. nt eppur_se_muova May 16 #22

Ugh. Donny and his racist Foghorn! And "permission slips" electric_blue68 May 16 #26

Lee Atwater gave away the GOP's strategy a long time ago fujiyamasan May 16 #28

... orangecrush May 16 #30

The committee that review books needs to take into account the totality of the work, and not individual passages. Melon May 16 #34

I live in TN, near Knoxville. TNNurse May 16 #37