[gnarledmaw]

It is/was. Thats the problem with these socially conscious novels. Write a novel, a fiction, a lie, so you can say anything you want. Construct a problem and lay it out in the manner most effective in teaching your intended propaganda. Present it as a truth. Frame it so it deceptively teaches one lesson while covering for that lesson with a rally for the masses to get behind and bleat. Present it to those too immature to have a framework to judge, question, or be suspicious of the lesson. Programming complete.

This garbage has done nothing more than spread the racism it claims to combat while training the intended victims to fight for their own defeat. I cant believe so many fall for this crap. The posturing makes me want to puke and signalling makes me want to smack some sense into every one of them.

[mrsmel]

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