There is something ironic about making Invisible Man invisible on school library shelves.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
The mean, illiterate, small-minded pricks!
it’s not ironic.
it’s a deliberate racist whitewash of a history they want to erase.
Wow. Kevin Williamson and I agree on something/
HA. This is the kind of braindead idiot NRO has helped empower, and now they’re shocked that the braindead idiots are doing braindead idiot things.
Richard Petty, the NASCAR King, is a big man and Republican politician in Randolph County, NC.
But my favorite symbol of Asheboro, the county seat of Randolph County is the business on the edge of town. One building. One door. Two display windows. In the first it says “Loans”. In the second it says “Guns”. It’s been there since the textile mills closed. Apparently, it still does business of one sort or the other.
The other news item. The North Carolina state association of librarians apparently is using this event as their spotlight book in this year’s Censored Books Week event in public libraries across the state.
As I noted in a previous thread:
What doesn’t belong in a Randolph County Public School? (Choose one)
Child abuse
Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’
Corporal Punishment Option Upheld in Randolph Co. Schools
Irony and idiocy are not equivalent.
This is why it was always important to my mother to teach us kids about our history and encourage us to read about it even outside of school work. How the hell do you ban “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison from the freakin’ library!!!!
The act of banning the book is coincidental, not ironic. However, the increased awareness of this overlooked great work of American literature raised by this particular move, well, that’s ironic.
Please edit your post: “Invisible Man” is not the same as “The Invisible Man.” It is an important distinction.