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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The black stuff isn't political, it's just that some schools go overboard to the point of ridiculousness. Like a school with a 5% black student body having most of the featured display fiction and non-fiction books about black characters and historical fiction is weird, outside of black history month. Diversity means lots of different cultures are represented, not one tiny minority. It's exhausting.[/quote]

I can imagine!  Just as I’m sure you can imagine how “exhausting” it can be to be one kid in a school with a 5% Black student body — who has to go to a “special collection” to buy a book that might have characters who look like them.  They’ll get used to it though, because books are being banned in libraries too.

I’m curious though. Can you post a picture?  I’ve been to many Scholastic book fairs in multiple cities and multiple schools, and the schools with close to 100% Black students don’t have displays like that. If you can provide specific examples, it will make it easier to request titles the next time I’m involved in any planning.

Nice of you to give us “Black History Month” as a not “weird” option.  SMH.[/quote]

Why would you need to find a character who looks like you in a book?  It’s not TV…[/quote]

Because I personally find it affirming. There’s also a higher chance that books with characters that look like me, might actually be dealing with issues that I can relate to.   Like being one of a small number of Black students in a school — say 5% — and realizing that raving parents out to ban books are happily whitewashing history, and the school a acquiesces.

Oh, and we don’t do TV in my house.  You can probably guess why.  [/quote]

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