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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I came across the most intense, raw and uncensored talk about black people's history and present in the US. I cannot describe how intense this is, you just have to listen to her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7tpAK8APY

Did you listen that?  Heavy, right?

this woman's work is censored. There isn't a single book by her in all of the millions of titles in Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria public libraries.

This is inexcusable, I think. How could the librarians miss her? Dr. Joy DeGruy, "is a nationally and internationally renowned researcher, educator, author and presenter. " (http://joydegruy.com/) Look at her list of clients, she's worked with everyone from Harvard to Nike, her client/conference list is what, 100+ lines long?. http://joydegruy.com/client-list-and-press/

How come not a single copy of her work is available to the public?

Here's the link again. 
Dr. Joy DeGruy - Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7tpAK8APY

For the record: I moved to the US Ukraine. In college, I studied and got an A in African American History. Uuugh, I see now just how sugar-coated our textbook was. And the present is no better.[/quote]

Censored or banned has a very specific meaning--that a town has made the deliberate decision to not permit a certain book to be made available through the public library. Do you mean that Fairfax, Alexandria, and Arlington have taken the step of forbidding citizens access to this book? Or is it just that they don't have it in their catalogs? There are over 300,000 new titles published each year. MOST books are not in libraries--it does not mean they have been censored or banned.

FYI, saying "this work has been censored" is fighting words to a librarian. Most libraries around here cheerfully display shelves of books that people have tried to ban. [/quote]

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