Well…if you’ve seen the news lately, you would have seen that repub controlled school boards across the country are making it their only reason for being to ban books they don’t like,  mostly by people of color or that shine a light on the racism in this country…with their rationale being that kids shouldn’t be exposed to the Holocaust or anything that might make them uncomfortable. Damn, I am so tired of these snowflakes trying to keep kids from understanding what the world is really like…from slavery to the cold war to rampant discrimination to fascism, they don’t want children to know the reality of the world since they think that knowing history or difficult concepts that will shine a light on reality will harm them in some way or make them ashamed of being white…yep, that’s a big part of it…they just don’t want  white kids to know that their ancestors were responsible for the slave trade and Jim Crow on to the discrimination that still exists now…look, when I was 8 or nine years old, I bought the book “Fail Safe” from the Scholastic book club that came around to schools and made books available to everyone in grade school….now, that book was about the possibility of a military officer taking it upon himself to leave his fail safe point and drop a hydrogen bomb on Moscow…which was one of the fears that we all had growing up during the cold war where we could die any day we woke up…but the twist was, to prevent an all out nuclear war, the commander of US forces made a deal to drop a bomb on New York city to make up for Moscow….and the searing part of it was that his family was in NYC that day and he had to sacrifice them for the good of the world….this drove home to me that leadership sometimes meant doing the right thing at great personal cost but honor and duty required that choice….now, this was a deep concept for an 8 year old but one that helped shape me throughout my life….and the thing was that no one banned that book and it was not too tough for an 8 year old to understand and I think the same goes for today…I mean banning “to Kill a Mockingbird” since it shows the widespread racism and it’s effects on black people in the south in the 30′s? That’s something that every person in this country needs to know since progress on race in this country has been fitful at best…and it’s best if children are taught these concepts before their views harden as they get older…geez…