Or build new ones honoring the traitors.

Yikes. Never thought we’d go back to an era before I was even born. Insane.

Pass a Federal laws any confederate statue must include a white flag of surrender.

Haley lived in Knoxville.

so. Sorry.

"Knox County (TN) is removing Alex Haley's books from its school libraries". Haley lived in Knoxville and is being dishonored in his own hometown.

In Argentina.

Might be a bounty on those singing canaries,however.

None of those deep red racist gerrymandering states will ever get a dollar of my travel budget.

From WATE Knoxville via Yahoo News:

Removal of Pulitzer Prize winner “Roots” from Knox County Schools causes backlash
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/removal-pulitzer-prize-winner-roots-231523780.html

to kids in that community, not the ones old and mature enough to get throigh the first 83 chapters of that book.

Sad, infuriating, disgusting.

Those parents are less about protecting kids than they are about nursing their own hurt fee fees about the history they'd like to erase.

describe a white man raping a black woman. I would hope that some enterprising, pissed off Liberal might consider bringing that up -- in a court of law. If you can ban Haley's book because of a rape scene demonstrating the ugliness of enslavement, than why not a ban on incest (Lot's girls) and masturbation (Onan)? Or the townspeople of Sodom demanding -- apparently -- that the angels visiting Lot be given to them that they might, ahem, "know" them -- or the fact that Lot offered up his daughters to the mob for gang rape?

I can't believe the low browed anti-christ's in Tennessee will get away with their ban on "Roots," without a counter suit to ban the equally filthy bible as well. And don't get me wrong, I appreciate both books, but Haley's speaks directly to the American experience, the Bible speaks to love and hate, cruelty and kindness, reasoned empathy and cold-blooded savagery universally.

I don't recall ever any mention of ethnicities..perhaps Ive missed it?

Just make the book accessible only with parent permission. That should be easy to do with computers. Banning is far too draconian.

There was another book I came across that looked interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchild_in_the_Promised_Land

I have not read much black literature.

I saw another book yesterday that could be interesting but the author has a post on Salon that mentioned Malcolm Gladwell and then when I got what it implied - wrt what I am seeing, I knew that though not directly related it is absolutely outrageous and what I am going to the police about locally.

I read it years ago, I think I’ll buy another copy too

somehow I don't think this will work as intended.

What’s next? A klan revival.

Banning on sex or violence based on a few paragraphs versus the context of the work is wrong.

The racists and ignorance ( I realize that is redundant) are working hard to destroy what is good.

We will keep fighting. The sculpture of Haley is quite amazing.