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Why did Biloxi pull ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from the 8th grade lesson plan?
SunHerald ^ | October 12, 2017 | Karen Nelson

Posted on 10/14/2017 11:31:15 AM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: bgill

The Truman Capote version was.


41 posted on 10/15/2017 7:21:00 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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MS Ping


42 posted on 10/16/2017 5:25:05 AM PDT by WKB (If you are on the "Trump Train" you can't get run over!!)
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To: WKB

never read the book

the movie in older age struck me as hamfisted virtue signaling

like The Help

that crap hasn’t been relevant since early 60s


43 posted on 10/16/2017 7:15:10 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: gnarledmaw

Well said, you explained the original purpose of books like TKAMB and movies like “Blackboard Jungle” precisely. Early propaganda.


44 posted on 10/16/2017 1:56:30 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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