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09-22-2013, 08:26 AM | #2 |
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So with the internet, racy movies, and tv advertising depicting everything from dildos to limp dicks, they are going to ban this book..Makes sense...
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Decision being reconsidered.
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NC school board lifts 'Invisible Man' book ban
A North Carolina school board reversed its decision to ban Ralph Ellison's classic novel "Invisible Man" from school libraries after a fierce public backlash. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A North Carolina school board lifted its ban of Ralph Ellison's classic novel "Invisible Man" from school libraries on Wednesday after being ridiculed by residents and undercut by a giveaway of the book at a local bookstore. The widely publicized ban by the Randolph County Board of Education in central North Carolina came after a high school junior's mother complained that the sexual content in the book, chosen for a summer reading program, was "not so innocent" and "too much for teenagers." Five of the board's seven elected officials agreed on Sept. 16 to bar the novel, with one member saying he "didn't find any literary value" in Ellison's account of African-American alienation in the United States in the early 20th century. But after a fierce backlash by hundreds of citizens, the board held a special meeting on Wednesday and voted 6-1 to put the book back on school library shelves. "I felt like I came to a conclusion too quickly," board member Matthew Lambeth said of his earlier vote to bar the book. In an interview, Lambeth said he has read the book twice and enjoyed it. He changed his vote, he said, after being convinced by local educators that the novel's educational value outweighed his concerns about the appropriateness of certain sexual themes for teenagers. Ellison achieved worldwide fame and critical success with "Invisible Man," which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1953 and was named by the Library of Congress as one of the "Books That Shaped America." Ellison died in 1994. "Invisible Man" is commonly included in the curriculum of U.S. high school and college literature classes. Word of the ban, which spread quickly thanks to national news coverage and social media, inspired one former resident to ask the book's publisher to donate free copies to area high-school students. Vintage Books agreed, and a giveaway of "Invisible Man" began on Wednesday at a local Books-A-Million store, said Evan Smith Rakoff, a New York-based writer and Web editor who grew up in Randolph County. "I think banning any book is abhorrent, but banning a book that's so undeniably great is incredibly upsetting," Rakoff said. http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/nc-s...snews11&stay=1
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I support the ban. He wasn't a very good superhero. Only one power and it wasn't all that great. Plus he had to be naked for it to work, no wonder the parents were upset. They should be reading Batman graphic novels instead.
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The parent who suggested the ban in the first place is a moron.
Too much sexual content for a teenager to handle? JFC, Ellison describes a naked lady with an American flag painted on her and I don't recall the scene where the Narrator cuckolds the white dude's wife as pretty graphic. You have to be kidding me. Too much for a teenager to handle... does the **** realize her son or daughter has *probably* been sending or receiving pictures of genitalia for the last four or five years (unless he/she is a total ****ing loser) ??
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I just read this in College, well "Battle Royal". I actually have to write my first essay on this and "Barn Burning". Had not one clue there was more to it than that. I need to check this out.
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I don't think that guy actually read the book.
Like the originally parent complaining, probable never got past the fight scene at the start.
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