Biloxi pulls ‘Mockingbird’ for use of ‘n-word’

Our children will learn of the n-word thru rap lyrics and trash talking in school. But the will never hear it in classical literature. 

Tell me again, what’s the difference between education and ignorance indoctrination? 

I’m so glad my kids did not receive a government education indoctrination. 

Biloxi (MS) eighth-graders won’t read To Kill a Mockingbird because someone complained, said Kenny Holloway, vice president of the school board. “There is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable and we can teach the same lesson with other books,” he told the Sun Herald.

A reader told the Sun Herald the classic book was dropped “mid-lesson plan . . . due to the use of the ‘N’ word.”

I wonder what other books Biloxi will find to teach about racial injustice without making anyone uncomfortable.

By today’s standards, Atticus Finch is a “rape apologist,” wrote Ashe Schow (satirically) in 2014. In defending a black man accused of raping a white woman, Finch questions the accuser’s account, she writes.