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thucythucy

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15. Somehow I doubt that rape is a concept totally unknown

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #13)

Fri May 15, 2026, 10:51 PM

May 15

to kids in that community, not the ones old and mature enough to get throigh the first 83 chapters of that book.

Sad, infuriating, disgusting.

Those parents are less about protecting kids than they are about nursing their own hurt fee fees about the history they'd like to erase.

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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