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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Btw PP, you are trying to argue that books with White authors should account for 88% of the MCPS curriculum in a school system that is 25% White. Do you not see how you are upholding White supremacy?[/quote]

Yes, I am saying that this country, with its foundations in the Enlightenment and the English language, will by necessity need to teach from that heritage if it expects people to value the things that made it successful.[/quote]

I would like my kids to learn about things that made this country successful, but also about areas where it wasn't so successful.[/quote]

The only people saying this needs to be an either/or decision are the people saying we should excise all white people from the curriculum. No one advocating that kids learn about Thomas Paine and John Locke are saying kids shouldn’t also learn about Frederick Douglass and Ralph Ellison.[/quote]

This was in reference to a PP's agreeing with "White authors should account for 88% of the MCPS curriculum."[/quote]

Wouldn't it be better if they focused less on an author's race and more on a book's content?[/quote]

THIS

Focusing on the race of the author is dumb and useless.  [/quote]

I find this idea of classifying something as white literature as if all white authors are the same kind of racist.[/quote]

Black literature is categorized as such all the time. You just find it offensive when White literature is marked as such, because you think of Whiteness as the standard and everything else as different/other.[/quote]

Brer Rabbit folklore stories are fantastic. But the Blm activists want that canceled. And it was.[/quote]

No child, Song of the South was cancelled and very deservedly so.[/quote]

Brer stories have African origins... Walt Disney did not create them.[/quote]

Nope, but Disney did create Song of the South which is widely acknowledged to be very racist
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Yes, we read that up above... does that mean that we take those African folktales out of kids' lives?[/quote]

Who is doing that? It is not hard to find Brer Rabbit books on Amazon, for example. If you only care about the racist version, then that's on you.[/quote]

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