Thursday, May 01, 2025

The banning of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" reminds me of how some people's parents were raised.

When we read that book in English class and a bunch of people started saying, "She seems so racist against white people," (including a lot of not white people were saying that), and that was apparently their primary impression of the book.

Some of those people are probably other people's parents now.

So, after I read "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," and I thought oh, if only they would have us read a book like this in school, in class, and then it actually happened. Well, I found out. Be careful what you wish for.

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