Missouri School District Bans Toni Morrison Book

[demmiblue]

A school board in Missouri has banned four books, including Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, from libraries in the district’s high schools, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

The Wentzville School Board voted 4-3 to remove the Nobel laureate’s debut novel from library shelves, following challenges from parents. The television station Fox 2 reports that the board also voted to ban three memoirs: George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue, Kiese Laymon’s Heavy, and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.

“By all means, go buy the book for your child,” board member Sandy Garber said of The Bluest Eye. “I would not want this book in the school for anyone else to see.”

The Bluest Eye, first published in 1970, has been the target of several challenges and bans over the years, most recently in Northville, Michigan; Buncombe County, North Carolina; and Colton, California. The novel made the American Library Association's top 10 list of the most challenged books of the year in 2006, 2013, 2014, and 2020.

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/missouri-school-district-bans-toni-morrison-book/

[Lovie777]

1. And so it begins . .

[Sherman A1]

2. Wentzville

Out in there in the red west of St. Louis.

[lastlib]

3. yeah. This is FASCISM--pure, undiluted.

Nazi Germany. Soviet Russia. Red China. Why can't these f*cking idiots see it?

[spanone]

4. List of authors banned in Nazi Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_banned_in_Nazi_Germany

[panader0]

6. Wow! Thanks for the list--amazing. I've read so many of those authors.

Actually reading Flannery O'Conner right now.

[mopinko]

7. that's a ridiculous list.

[uponit7771]

8. +1

[dalton99a]

5. Sandy Garber calls the Democratic Party modern Nazis

https://www.kmov.com/news/wentzville-school-board-member-accused-of-making-hate-filled-facebook-posts/article_f7e3affe-b4de-11ea-be21-ff13eac7197f.html

Wentzville school board member accused of making hate-filled Facebook posts
Russell Kinsaul
Posted Jun 23, 2020

WENTZVILLE, Mo. (KMOV.com) - More than 4,000 people have signed online petitions condemning Wentzville school board member Sandy Garber's Facebook page and calling on her to resign or be removed from office.

"The amount of hate that is portrayed on this page is unacceptable as an example for the students in our community. And it just has to stop," said Julia Luetkenhaus.

Luetkenhaus is a teacher in the district and one of those who signed a petition. She claims Garber's Facebook posts violate the district's code of conduct.

Garber's page has many posts about protests and other issues and events in the news. On her page she calls the Black Lives Matter movement a scam, claims a judge ruled in favor of a transgender athlete because the judge was gay and calls the Democratic Party modern Nazis.