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Old 09-28-2013, 03:27 PM   #20
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I disagree 1000% with banning books of any kind. That said, Invisible Man was a crap book. No "literary value" is pretty much my opinion on it as well. I distinctly remember the first time I read it (high school AP English) and thinking "How in HELL did this piece of crap make it on the list" because it was so blatantly inferior to everything else we were reading at the time.

So obviously I'm not a fan but banning books(even the crappy ones) is NEVER a good idea.
It showed the short comings of Communist Party USA from a black person's POV... Showed the social relationship between blacks and whites a la "the white man's burden" and interracial sexual tension as seen with the Narrator and the Trustee Norton at the brothel...
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