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- Students in a southern Pennsylvania school district are battling the latest example of panic spreading over how history and race are taught in schools across the US.
"I don't think a moral compass will let you ban books about equality and loving each other," Central York High School senior Christina Ellis told CNN.
Ellis is among the students protesting a book ban in York, Pennsylvania, and questions whether the officials who decided to remove certain reading materials from the curriculum even read the resources they deem controversial. She was joined by other teens protesting in front of Central York High School this week.
On Monday, students, parents and other community members debated during a virtual school board meeting about the list of anti-racism books and resources that were banned from the curriculum by the Central York school board last year.
Last October, the all-White school board unanimously banned a list of educational resources that included a children's book about Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai's autobiography and CNN's Sesame Street town hall on racism. CNN's Evan McMorris-Santoro reports.
#CNN #Evan McMorrisSantoro #DonLemonTonight
As a german and a scholar of history, let me tell you, after banning books, the burning isn't usually far off; btw: did I like hearing and learning about the atrocities my ancestors did in the 20th century, heck no! But do I feel guilty, not at all, because those things happened long before I was even born! But I will feel guilty, if I and my generation are forgetting about it or let it happen again!
Germans always worry about fascism and when Marxists come they won’t even know
@@JoseGarcia-xf5gk lol, tell me when they do, because they haven't, believe me...
Most countries have done evil, at some point, like the English starving the Irish. The Germans, murdering the Jewish people and others. Children must learn about these horrors, and especially the subtle changes that happened just before hand. Those who know, can see that we are heading down a terrible path at the moment. It is not the people, but what they are lead to believe. We must support free speech, critical thinking and respect for individual creativity. We must not comply to anything that seems sick or perverse.
@@JoseGarcia-xf5gk So. . . you think the antidote for Marxism is Fascism? Boy! Are you in trouble! Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Good point man, the Germans definitely have come a long way from that dark past because your people focused on not reenacting the past.
The students should campaign to remove those school board members
Ha! Good idea, BAN the SCHOOL BOARD
GO on strike kids , --- I mean young adults--- strike
The parents and other concerned citizens should be picketing and protesting.
I think that's an overall message to all of us. Time to pay attention to who we elect on the most local level all the way to POTUS. If we want change we have to do it, the adults need to model these students examples.
DEFINITELY!!!!
You will NEVER be able to erase America’s ugly history no matter how hard you try🤷🏾♀️
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Exactly because there’s kids and teenagers and adults that saw what happened and in the future they’re gonna tell the kids of the new generation what happened during this era
I hope not, people need the truth, not some white washed (get it?) Disney version of history.
You guys just think you know what hasn't been erased from America's ugly history. And nope, it wasn't that hard to do.
@@andreabrown4541 ........ say what now ma'am?🤔
The ironic thing is, by banning the books it may make some kids more interested in reading them just to see what the fuss is all about.
Exactly 😂😂😂😂
We can only hope.
people never seem to understand that
Yes it would
Like the parental advisory stickers that got put on albums back in the days
That book about the movie "Hidden Figures" was probably especially irksome to the board because it showed that Black women could handle rocket science.
@Jimmy Simon John Glenn insisted that Katherine Johnson, a black woman, do the math to get his trajectory coordinates for reentry because she was the only one he felt was good enough to not get him burned to a crisp. They had used computers to run the numbers, but he trusted her genius over machines saying “If she says they’re good, then I’m ready to go.”
@Jimmy Simon They want to truth the stay hidden. I had never heard of these women's contributions until I saw the movie.
The entire school board should be fired. Do not ban the books because students need to learn about Rosa Parks and others who are people of color. Stop trying to change the past, because by trying to do so, these fools are repeating the same damned shit.
I pretty much discarded every bit of the bullshit that passed itself off as history even before I graduated from High School. As a Black child of the 60's and 70's, my Elders made sure that I had access to the truth about our history while countering the lies I was being taught.
Ive seen this flick it's actually really really good and yea old white folks bein mad that shit like this is real
When you're accustom to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
It's like a football game between the Rich and the poor.
The Rich always have the better equipment.
The playing field is uneven.
No matter the circumstances, the rich are always running downhill toward their goal, and the poor always have an uphill battle.
So, of course, the rich and powerful would think it was cheating if they even had to play on a level playing field .... let alone make them take their turn trying to run uphill toward the goal.
@@jamesbarnes3832 Brilliant analogy.
@@jamesbarnes3832 Every time the rich push us down, we become stronger, smarter, harder to push down again.
This actually reminds me of something an old Native American friend once told me. True strength comes from lifting yourself up every time you fall down.
@Shontel Brown You obviously cannot discern what racism is. Just because the law allows minorities equal rights, DOESN'T MEAN THERE IS NO MORE RACISM!
@Shontel Brown Hey you're the one who brought race into this conversation. Why don't you just move on with your life? Why do you feel the need to make a statement, maybe because you're feeling a form of oppression for the first time. Sucks doesn't it, makes you want to do something about it, just like BLM and other minority movements... how weird.
“I don’t want my kids confronted with a reality that challenges my carefully crafted white fantasy.”
@Shontel Brown that's a lie. Bet u heard that from a white person.
@Shontel Brown if it’s likely to be true it should be taught. I personally believe that this was true. I think history in those countries bears it out. But what you’re doing is “whataboutism”. It’s not actually an argument.
We have traditionally not taught many things in school. We have been getting better. These bans set us back.
@Shontel Brown teach it. Africans had a hand in slavery. But it doesn't excuse the origional sin of this country. They could've chose not to buy those slaves the Africans had available, but they did. So whats your point?
@Shontel Brown Yes, along with the hand that European countries had in those policies in Africa.
America is a sick Country this is out of countrol
"I don't want my daughter growing up feeling guilty for being White." Uhhh, sounds like you're the one feeling this "GUILT" and planting that seed. She will be fine knowing who she is and how to love and not hate... Smarter than you Dude..
Drop your draaaaaws
HOW DO YOU BAN HIDDEN FIGURES?! That's literally an extremely inspirational story for young black girls... Make it make sense!
That's why they banned it.
The ridiculous thing is that Hidden Figures is inspirational for anyone who is not from a rich background, because it teaches that, so long as you have skill and determination, you can achieve anything - regardless of your race or gender. Unless the board of this school district (& the parents that support them) are modern day Vanderbilts, then this ban takes inspiration away from *their* children, as well as children of colour.
The telling part, though, was when they said they wanted to "freeze" usage until they could review the books and, in a year, they still haven't done it. That's either admitting blatant racism or that they can't read... (or possibly both...) 🤦♀️
If it's not white it's not right.See the pattern here.Next it's back to ,i love Jesus or die.
There is no rhyme or reason to this
Because it inspires young Black Girls. That’s why it was ban.
“Land of the free” - I’m amazed they haven’t organised a book burning
EVERYONE should mail that board a copy of Farenheit 451!!!!
(Dystopian book where "firemen" come & burn books...in order to keep masses ignorant of how to fight a corrupt system.)
Book burning not that far away!
@@trishs706 Sorry, Farenheit 451 has been banned.
Already been done in the USA many times for ideological purposes.
Give them time and enough power and they would.
Send those board members back to school… They’re literally repeating history.
And not the good parts...wtf
The parents of these girls should be so proud!!
This isn’t about kids feeling guilty, it’s about parents’ and grandparents’ fear of being judged by their descendants.
What are you smoking? Fear of being judged for what? If something is wrong, I don’t do it. Because it’s wrong. Not because I don’t want to be judged for doing wrong things. Although if I do wrong things, I totally deserve to be judged for doing wrong things. This argument is stupid.
Totally agree with you. The kids are way more open minded than their elders and ready to embrace equality, which apparently is problematic to their parents and grandparents because it changes how things have always been.
Oh really fool! Hahahaha!!!!!!! Silly 😜
@@DAN-lo7fz A calm and cogent argument was presented and you act like they wrote a straw man argument at best. What are YOU smoking?
If parents, grandparents, great grandparents, and great great etc. did no evil 🙈🙉🙊 then they have nothing to fear 😳😨😱‼️ But if they have something "feeling guilty" about then that was why they didn't want their children and great great great... grandchildren to know about their little dirty history‼️
All those books being shown are also about strong girls and women. Interesting.
Yes, i have read all of the ones they showed on camera except the Rosa Parks one. I’m a school librarian. Although, I read the “older” Malala one just out of interest on an airplane home from Europe. They are all solid books. There is absolutely nothing that should make any white parent “worry.” 🙄
Hidden Figures…that’s a hard one for me to wrap my mind around. But I get it
Exactly!
@@michelleb7399 Yeap and ain't nothing the white man fears more than a strong colored woman.
@@michelleb7399 Unfortunately, it seems like there are plenty of white parents who worry about kids of color being empowered to believe they are equal to white people.
Ironically enough, Malala's story is literally preaching about the importance of education for everyone regardless of their identity...
My high school assigned Malala’s biography to all students as summer reading… I guess I should go protest against my school district for indoctrinating us with “bad ideas” such as valuing our education, or even worse, exposing us innocent children to the reality that not all children have an opportunity to obtain an education! Too “divisive”!
They only see the Hijad...not the person wearing it!
Africa is the country that sold the slaves. Why aren't you protesting them.
Exactly, the Hidden Figures book is about women in an influential role in science. Which no one ever talks about the struggles of women in a male dominated profession, let alone a black woman.
@@alabamamothman2986 Closer to the country where the people were abducted from, and sold as slaves. There is a difference.
Hidden Figures is such a great book, not only for it's importance in the space race, but the importance that women of color played in helping America succeed in it. What's sad is I never knew anything about that book prior to going to college and still only learned about it when it was a required reading for my Astronomy course.
The irony of banning Malala’s autobiography. We don’t call them the American Taliban for nothing. 😒
The BLM fist and communist fist look eerily similar
Brad Meltzer (author of I am Rosa Parks) was on FOX news
@@cujoe3192 didn’t see blm storm the capital lol try again weirdo
Absolutely!
@@cujoe3192 What does your comment mean? And why is your user name eerily similar to Steven King’s novel about a big ugly killer dog?
“I am Malala” is an excellent book. I’m shocked and saddened
I am no even remotely surprised. Saddened and angry, sure, but not in the least bit surprised.
Shocked? Haven't been in America long?
In 7th grade we read that book I loved it
The students are smart and know how to use the internet well.
"One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher, can change the world."....it will change "their" world profundly, if young people start to ask critical question.
Not the kids feeling guilty----it's the parents who don't want their kids judging their racist attitudes.
@Clinton Barbee you mean republikkkan. Check yourself before spewing lies and bullshit. It’s your republikkkan party wanting to ban books and oppress the vote. 🙄🙄🙄
@Clinton Barbee is that why the strongest black figures in America are Democrats? I do recall a Democratic black president. How many black republikkkans sit in the House and Senate? 🙄🤨🙄🙄
@@Buttercup697 Who founded the KKK? Who opposed every major civil rights bill? Who holds the record for longest filibuster in the history of this country? Because they didn't want blacks to be able to vote? Who were the slave owners? The segregationists? Ah that's right. DemoKKKrats.
@@Buttercup697 How are they oppressing the vote?
@@Buttercup697 you do know that blacks were originally Republicans, and Democrats were originally white - southern/Confederate. Can research it, everything is mixed up and reversed for specific reasons.
Hats off the the student who stated that she wants to know all of History (whitewash). Proud of her for standing UP.
It's ironic because these kid's clearly buy into CRT which is nothing but whitewashed.
15-20 years later, these parents ask themselves why their children don't call or visit them.
There is still hope because the generations that are coming out maybe a little bit more stupid and stuck to social media but we are starting to see a lot more younger activism people standing up with a voice and they are clearly standing on the side of good. Congratulations to these ladies hopefully more girls like this will come together
Exactly!
Best comment here because this is exactly what divides parents from their children, head-shaking ignorance and weird hatred.
This is happening to my sister, my nephew recently told me he cant do it anymore.
Why do I get the impression that books with titles like "The Glory of Southern Plantations" or "How the Klan benefited America" would be A-OK with these school boards?
Because it is racist!
The BLM fist and communist fist look eerily similar
@@cujoe3192 You keep spamming this? Is it similar to the boot I imagine some wouldn't mind sticking up your derēˈer? Reported for spam.
Why they won't ban them, they wanna keep them, those are the one's they need to ban, we don't won't our children known how and what the Klams did to our Ancestors, that will cause them to get upset and it might cause the other race to grow up think6they can do it to, you got white children and black children getting alone better together then the grown up
@@cujoe3192 The raised fist is a common anti-oppression symbol.
When people, especially kids are told not to do certain things, they feel curious to know why not.
Especially when in school they're told not to learn something.......
Making a subject into "forbidden fruit" almost always makes people, kids especially, MORE curious about it.
Yup, let’s hope this backfires big time on them.
My high school banned "Catcher in the Rye" so we all read it.
If I was a teacher there, I'd be handing out that list to my kids and recommending that they do a little light reading on their own time. The school board may be able to take the books out of school libraries, but there's nothing they can do about kids doing things on their own time.
My grandpa reminded me to truely learn history because for those who don't are doomed to repeat it again. And with everything going on I understand why he told me this repeatedly. I am mixed race Mexican and American. My elementary teachers were Native Americans and Mexican. I am grateful they gave us the truth as painful as it is. I received death threats for speaking Spanish the other day . I have LGBT friends and friends with people of all different nationalities. I feel we are actually living in pre Germany in the the 1930s. And I remember that poem they came! I'm 29 years old and I am using my voice to advocate the truth . History can be rewritten and should be written by the people it effected! Not the victors! I'm glad to see the youth is becoming aware of how they are trying to bring back book banning. They have a crystal clear idea of what is really going on! Keep that vision please! We are better than division and book bannings and discrimination. We are love ! The people implementation of this is hate. The world needs love not hate !
I feel the same way. I am been saying this every since trump became president. Pre Holocaust America.
What a bold and transparently racist decision.
And sexist. Most of those books featured strong women & girls.
I’m so proud of these young people who are standing up & speaking out. Oh my goodness keep going strong 💪
It's funny cause now the students will be more inclined to read those books, so whatever the motive was it failed.
Here’s a video of Trump saying the n word with a hard er:
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Wait who is rosa parks?
Put the school on Twitter that it supports NAZI ideology banning books....
Let's see if you have the same support for young people standing up for their 2nd amendment hypocrite leftist😂
I bought "I am Enough" for two of my granddaughters and it had such a profound effect on them both that their parents told me they think it altered their lives. You see, neither girl was aware of a racial element. They took it to mean that they are enough, which even at 2 and 3 years old, was such a relief it brought tears to their eyes. This ban is so cowardly and ignorant I am ashamed for these educators.
The board aren't "educators"
The teachers didn't "freeze" the books. The board did.
I have that book. It's about self acceptance and it has girls of all colors and ethnicities and different physical abilities in it. I don't get why anything would be wrong with it. It's cute. That's so silly.
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You should hire a new school board
Kinda like the book im ok your ok.love that book
I'm a former history teacher in North Carolina. Lost my job because principles two principles found out that I was Wiccan and not Christian what I mean bragged about it when I took her to court just to keep my job. If your school board has voted to ban books on those subjects bring me up there and hire me I'll teach those them subjects and they can't stop me. Their subjects it actually need to be taught their people that need to be discussed and believe me I can talk a lot more than just those two little topics and I ain't afraid to
The right: We don't like canceling and censorship!
Also the right: Cancel and censor!
It's what they've been doing for decades, they banned movies and music cds and videos in the 50s 60s, 70s 80s, besides the host of other bans they enacted using their religious views.
The Left: Cleansing Ceremony.
@@libtard678 ok white boy
Lol and the hypocrisy doesn’t even phase them.
@@brooklynnchick Get over it. Hypocrisy is done, its war.
As a white student I was proud that we were moving forward and striving for equality. I felt that we should never go back to those injustices and fight to be even more equal recognizing that we still had work to do. I don't understand keeping kids ignorant, finding out you were lied to later can bring way more guilt for believing the lies and feelings of betrayal later
Finding out you were lied to later on can also make you feel dumb. Not that this is on the same level at all, but my parents let me believe in Santa for too long. After I found out, I felt like an idiot. The same goes for religion, but I'll leave it at that.
Keep in mind now, banning books today almost always leads to burning books tomorrow. And, unfortunately, that almost always leads to burning people later.
What do you mean never go back to those injustices? They're still happening every day. They tried to ban the books to ensure systemic racism continues.
@@carmen_says_hi yeah thats definitely not even remotely in the same arena lol
Oh, we don’t even see colour. We definitely didn’t notice that we were only banning books about remarkable people who are brown.
Yeah. Like my friend who works in a school where this is going on and there’s about 100 faculty members and not a single black teacher.
@@deceptiondispeller4 Sounfs about right. The whole point of education is to learn things you don’t know, isn’t it? I’ve never heard an excuse for that kind of crap that was even a little believable.
@@szechuanfire exactly. I saw someone on here comment well then move. Like it’s that easy to just move first of all, and second, pretending something doesn’t exist doesn’t make it not exist. Black people don’t live “where [this person] just wants them to.” It’s ridiculous. Schools are supposed to prepare children for reality. This is just living in a bubble.
Holy racist dude. Literally not the only books pulled. @cnn only reporting the hate, again. Soooo, boring.
@@jasonfuchs4304 Well, I have ro ask, why did you come to a CNN channel?
I absolutely love this. If I were a kid, and my school banned these books, you better believe I would find them and read them immediately. Awesome way to bring awareness to these books :-)
Well said 😂 we can only hope that the kids of the future will take pride in the knowledge that is history
Dont let ignorance win kids. You're the future of this country. These kids should be on the school board.
If they’re the future of our country then we’re fucked.
@@Newmericaindustries the clips of those kids showed well spoken, respectful young adults. What would you like?
@@Newmericaindustries Why because they aren't racist and close minded like you?
@@Newmericaindustries so banning books about people who have done so much to people around the world will make the kids of the next generation better? I smell racism
@@Newmericaindustries you scared?
The adults are afraid their kids will grow up more open-minded and become anti-raciest.
I think their parents are more afraid that they grew up being Social justice warriors. Being tricked by race baiting and fear mongering. Why are we pumping kids full of racism why are we pumping our kids for sexual identity. They should be playing outside but yet you agree that we should suppress them in their house reading books that constantly I have them living in fear or seeing division. I would honestly say it’s evil to expose our kids are such things.
@@shred4life420 totally agree with you👍👍
Bingo!
@@shred4life420 what century are you still living in ... 1950s gone.
@@shred4life420 You think that because you're white and don't have to worry about being affected by racist institutions created by "white" racists like yourself.
Kudos to these students…who seem to be the last remaining sane minds surrounding the ONLY way to plant the seeds of growth in young minds!
Brad Meltzer (author of "I am Rosa Parks") was on Fox News.
The BLM fist and communist fist look eerily similar
Those kid's are clear leftists in which case they don't understand anything!
@@cujoe3192 and?
"They don't gotta burn the books they just remove em." Rage Against The Machine
I'm German. Imagine if German parents would say "I don't want my daughter growing up feeling guilty." I mean, there are parents like that, but they are not taken seriously and there are no schools banning books here. You have a problem, America.
@Shontel Brown Germany did pay.....Chinese... Koreans and the Dutch are asking Japan to pay
@renideo but Germany did pay the victims.....Korea till this day is asking for money from Japan
@Shontel Brown Here's the thing, Germany did pay.
You're exactly right. It's like if Germany was going to try to teach their children that Nazis.....hitler...just didnt happen.. Its disgusting.
I couldn’t agree with you more !
Absolutely despicable. These kids have wisdom, maturity and a moral compass, all missing in the disgusting adults who implemented this ban.
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I agree
No books should be banned for any reason, ever. Unless it’s something like “how to build a bomb”
That’s probably not banned tho!
Erotic novels in high school?
@@ft9kop Hilarious strawman, considering what every high school kid knows how to find for free on the internet. But nice try, troll.
That’s called chemistry class.
@Lisa Vivera Interestingly, in spite of my country (Canada) having strong laws against hate speech, all these books are legal here; I own copies of them all. I am not a fascist Satanist, I'm just a bibliovore who reads everything for myself because I'm curious, and I want to know everything firsthand. And I love living in a space that's more library/studio than apartment!
*To anyone wondering, the title of "The Satanic Verses" is misleading - it's Salman Rushdie's brilliant and scathing novel critiquing the Koran and Muslim fundamentalism, for which he still has a fatwa against him. I highly recommend it, if only as a gateway drug to the rest of Rushdie's beautiful writing.
These parents who push the book bans are worried about how their children will feel after reading true history. I never had that luxury. I had to equip my children with the truth everytime they walk out of our home. And it wasn't their FEELINGS I was worried about getting hurt.
I applaud these young ladies. Their school board, however, hasn't got a clue how toxic their book ban is.
They do, they don't care.
Brad Meltzer (author of "I am Rosa Parks") was on Fox News.
The BLM fist and communist fist look eerily similar
@@cujoe3192 The raised fist has been used as a political symbol for a variety of movements.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist
They know EXACTLY how toxic this is but they do NOT care. They are using their white privilege to try to whitewash what children are learning. They want to indoctrinate them like their parents clearly did.
They really banned a book about Rosa Parks 🤨
Bahahahaha
@@RandomGuy33369 Trump lost. Get over it. Womp womp. Thoughts and prayers, snowflake.
@@RandomGuy33369 hush Karen
THE BOOK ABOUT TRUMP IS THE MOST IMPORTANT AND HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY
@@RandomGuy33369 Get bent KKKaren.
This is so disheartening! I'm ashamed of those school board members!! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! I would be making sure my child had access to all of those books!
The sad thing is that they have no shame.
I would leave that town and let them so them.
YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THEIR CHILDREN TO KNOW THE TRUTH..THEY WILL FIND OUT ABOUT AMERICA AND THE HISTORY ABOUT IT...CHILDREN NEVER GIVE UP..THAT'S WHY CHILDREN ARE SO BEAUTIFUL..JESUS
"The secret to freedom is in educating the people, whereas the secret to tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."
Robespierre
CNN has succeeded in that.
Great quote!
Since the bible was written.
@@waltergrace565 No wonder conservatives hate college education.
@@a.alphbond9003 I didn't know that was the case.
I bought a few of those books for my kids so that they’d embrace everyone’s differences! Why would we ban them???
I guess the same reason the left bans conservative speakers and books that don't agree with their bullshit. Why would we ban them???
@@joemama9098 We’re not talking about politics. We’re talking about children’s books about things like telling about Rosa Park’s who was named by Congress as “the first lady of civil rights” for refusing to vacate a seat in the “colored section” of the bus for a white woman. These are autobiographies of Malala, who was shot in the head on a bus on her way to school by the Taliban because she advocated for the education of girls. This isn’t politics, and stop trying to make everything about it.
@@joemama9098 🤣🤣🤣🤣 what books have the left banned? 🤣🤣🤣 name one!
@@joemama9098 Better question would be, what books have the conservatives actually written? I mean, can they actually write? I know your people don’t read… so… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Buttercup697 conservatives aren't being censored, they just like playing the victim. Nothing more.
Good grief! School Board Treasurer doesn’t like “bad ideas” and “books that I definitely would not want in our district”. How will they ever teach their students about critical thinking, philosophy, reasoned argument & debate if they only have “safe” materials? … and have the Board members really no idea that they are acting just like Nazis and Taliban? Who are these people?
Simple - they're trumptards
I guess they will be banning books on World War II, poverty, famine, etc.
they want sheep!
Stump jumping book burners in Penns Woods.
They are elected officials. Go figure.
It would be nice to learn if that school board is re elected.
"All white board". That's all I had to hear. I hope these young people keep up the fight!
it's sad when the kids are smarter than and conscious than adults
Banning books is truly ridiculous in the age of the internet.
Then you’ll totally support Alex Jones getting his TH-cam channel back, right?
@@gabethedizzle nah, that's fake news, we don't need that.
Yeah, Dr. Seuss says hello. Haha!
@@saiyanraoh5109 no one banned dr Seuss.
Is your google broken?
It’s not ridiculous because books (especially illustrated ones like these) can’t compare to digital stuff.
“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.”
~Heinrich Heine
Great quote!
And it's a very short step from banning books in schools to burning them in the public square. Every small step advances bit by bit towards catastrophe.
Well said, The lack of tolerance is almost genetically inherited. It has to be burned out of our souls.
@@gat1240 Your last sentence using "burned out of our souls" is a tad disturbing in this conversation, although metaphorically accurate.
That quote should be highlighted in everyone's mind. It was prophetic, because it eventually happened in Heinrich Heine's home country many decades after his death. First they ban them, then burn them and what comes after that???
This is beyond ridiculous! I am a teacher. Sadly I have some relatives from York. What is the problem with Malala, Rosa Parks? It's too bad these teachers never read these books as they would have better role models if they had. This is a perfect example of school bureaucrats who are completely power-mad and don't know what they are doing.
They know what they are doing: promoting fascism. A fanatic reads one book; a barbarian reads none.
They banned a book for Rosa Parks! WOW
THE BOOK ABOUT TRUMP IS THE MOST IMPORTANT AND HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY
@@EduardoOliveira-e8c False, the biography of tRump will be a book no one reads
@@lexruptor don't feed them. 😆
It's ridiculous, I am Malala was a great story about a girl who we attacked because she lived in a Muslim country and she was getting an education. She rose above that continued her education and wrote a book and has been fighting for women's rights since.
This is a perfect book for any young adult, especially a young woman.
Sounds like The American Fascist Party (The GQP) at work in America.
And yet...these people will say they are not racist. Kudos to those young kids and the teachers fighting this.
This is will be blamed on GOP but, this is simply liberals eating their own with all the political correctness..
A communist agenda is infiltrating the school system and needs to be re organized and dealt with appropriately..
@@jw4972 And how do you come to That conclusion? Of course it's a 2021 Republican issue. White people scared of losing the majority privileges, that's all. They wanna be racist and not have to defend it. They don't wanna share privileges with non white.
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I'm white and European. This is so weird.
Of course they're not racist. They all have a black friend 😂😂
@UCoWCDX92lMrIDg_8n7Kjpkw So you're against the what the school district is doing about these books? That's excellent, glad to hear it.
Must be Trump's fault
"I don't want my child to feel guilty about being white."
Then sit down and talk about it. Don't ignore this. Someone has to teach your child about the world and their place in it. As a parent, THAT'S YOUR JOB. If you don't want teachers and school boards and tv shows and the internet to teach them, sit down and have the hard conversations!
Being white is a privilege. That doesn't make it wrong to be white. But it does give you a responsibility to be aware of what you have, be grateful for what you have, and determine how you can use that privilege to help others. Maybe in a small way, maybe something greater.
"I don't want my child to look down on our history."
We stand on the shoulders of those who came before. We wouldn't be here if not for them. Were some of them racist by our standards? Yes, but not by the standards of their time. Every generation has tried to improve on the ones before. Everyone does the best they can with what they're given. Do we think the pioneers who took the Oregon Trail were dumb for not inventing the car and building highways? In the same way, heroes of the past who would be racist in the 21st century shouldn't be erased for their failings when their successes brought us here. Without them, we might not be able to reach the place where we can see what is wrong and set about changing it.
Edit: Thank you for the people who pointed out that people can have different "heroes." I think Rosa Parks and Malala are heroes. If you don't agree, then you should probably just ignore my comment.
So let me see if I understand you. Because slavery occurred at the time, it was all right?
Halleluyah,just like Mrs. Jane Elliott say, where the whites woulda been if it wasn't for the blacks, cause the blacks was the one's who invented things and made America what it is today
I’d argue that they were racist in their time too. The only difference is most people didn’t mind back then.
@ScottfromTexas the United States is not a white country.
@ScottfromTexas I thought a commenter in another thread was unfair to say you are racist. Now I see they were right and I am wrong.
I love that she said we’re teaching kids to use critical thinking and when they notice bs they call it out. I’ve been very impressed with a lot of young adults the last few years. Seeing how many teenagers spoke up after Parkland was amazing. In my own town we had teens set up an entire BLM march, working with our politicians and townspeople to organize it. Currently we are having serious issues with the lack of school bus drivers, over crowding on buses and the district putting middle and highschool kids on the same buses which just increased the problem. While parents sat and bitched on Facebook, it’s the teens who took action and began writing and reaching out to the superintendent for change. I am sure young adults will change our future and I will stand behind them and support it.
Republicans: "Mandates are fascism! Now let's go burn some of these books."
There are some church groups that have already had book burnings like when a bunch of them got together a few years ago and burned all the Harry Potter books.
@@gregoryleewalker To some people the bible is fiction as well.
@@gregoryleewalker thank goodness I don't and never have belonged to a church like that. Nor have I heard of any where I live, although there are certainly are some fundamentalist ones where I live, near sacramento.
Yep!!
@Assassin Poisoned I say mostly lies and half truths . thoughts and prayers.
Well, now I have a list of books I'm buying for every young person in my life this Christmas. I'll have a set on my shelf too, for good measure.
Great idea!
you are very free to do that with your all money not with the tax from every body else . go on buy those races book no body will stop you
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I’ve ordered and received the I Am Rosa Parks and encourage others to buy some of these banned books. Give them as gifts to libraries or ???
Yes and I'll have Dr Seuss to
How can a country claim to have freedom of speech and banned books at the same time?
Same way social media silences anything that goes against the mainstream narrative, right? 🥴
@@1979DjHead trumptards wouldn't know the truth if it was right in front of them
@@1979DjHead nope, don't conflate 2 different issues.
@@1979DjHead I guess you don't know the difference between government and private corporations....
@@1979DjHead social media only bans the real fake news 🐑
The Nazi's burned good books. Seems like we're to repeat those times.
Way to increase kid’s interest in these valuable books. This ALWAYS backfires. ALWAYS!
MAYBE the whole thing was a ruse to get kids to read?
Local library
What they try to HIDE, MUST ALL Come TO Light.(#Haters of the Truth).live life's full of LIES,to HIDE the SINS of the past.
@@Charliefox71 Wouldn’t that be nice if true? Unfortunately, I think you are giving these school officials far too much credit…
@@hekatsees9449 You’re right.
Wow, Ashley you stated that perfectly. History is history it should be taught the way it happened.
@Sweet Rebel I was just getting ready to make a similar comment. I have never understood how some want to be willfully ignorant to those facts.
Somebody gonna teach it, whether they like it or not, cause we gotta know where we came from and know who we are, cause that was taken from us, not by these generation of today, it's the older generation of their Ancestors not our Ancestors, that's why it should be teach, back then all whites didn't like how our people were treated, it's the one's that doing these evil stuff today from their generation, i love white people who love me, cause their is some who still love black people and black people who love them, so let all the children be teach about History
Exactly
Great thing our supreme leader Donald Trump taught us all about how we took the airports during the revolutionary war xD
By banning the books they lose the argument that the harms are in the past.
They're not banning books. Why do you continue to fall for this?
They want to literally 'whitewash' history. You only need to look at what the Trumpists are doing about their Donnie lead failed coup on January 6th!
@@ww2remembered983 Haha, what? What are you talking about?
@@waltergrace565 They are removing them from the lessons and from the library. The teachers are feel such censorship that the cannot even quote from the books on the list. Officially they may not be 'banned' but by taking so long over the review the effect is the same. Banning is the effect regardless of the mechanism used.
@@gavinreid9184 No they're not banning or removing them from the library. They're reviewing their curriculum. There's a huge difference.
As a librarian, I have zero tolerance for this. Very VERY dangerous territory we are treading on.
This is insane. Good job these young minds understand what is really happening to their education.
Students deserve the TRUTH! We learn from our mistakes and, hopefully, do not repeat them.
They didn’t squash the students’ curiosity, they inflamed them. Kids of that age are tuned to pushback. Good job school board. 😉
The BLM fist and communist fist look eerily similar
They need to keep those books instead of banning them
@@cujoe3192 Yes, just like my fist looks eerily similar to every other human fist that has ever been too.
Welcome to Giliad! Soon we will be living literally "The Handmaid's Tale"
I'm so proud of these teenage girls!
I'm so proud of my English and French ancestors who NEVER owned a slave. In fact, they helped each other rear their children!!! According to the Woke radical democrats, that'd make me a White Supremacist.
@@whicker59 Do you always pathetically lie for attention?
@@joshuaking9249 Victim?? Dude just said what a stupid idea is, let alone taught to kids that believe anything from a teacher.
@@joshuaking9249 Pretty sure you are just making assumptions based on Media.
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That parent who is concerned about his child feeling guilt for being white is very revealing. He is essentially saying that the accurate history detailed in these objectionable books is cause for guilt! YES!!!!! Recognizing wrongs and feeling the guilt of those wrongs is the way to correcting them.
Even in court rooms remorse for one's crimes is seen as a positive thing, despite sentencing.
totally agreee!!!
Orr he just needs to man tf up and stop being a virgina ….it’s history…learn from it move on…simple..he is a pure snowflake
There's a wide range of things kids can learn from factual history like empathy, compassion and respect for truth.
I am all for teaching full and accurate history & learning about how craven humans can be - but hoping an innocent child feels guilt for events that took place before they were born, or before their families even immigrated to America is hardly enlightened or healthy. Misplaced guilt never ends well.
This is beginning to sound like Germany in the 1930s...
yep! Where Nazi burned millions of books.
This isn't the "beginning." The left banned books like Little House on the Prairie years ago. Both sides suck. Censorship sucks.
@@girlfromsouth214 what they hell you talk about little wtf wrong with that
@@girlfromsouth214 it not the right it the lefty it there way always blame someone else
This is heartbreaking! Free yourself from your ignorance and LEARN your history. Knowledge is POWER.
If we hide and deny our mistakes from the past, we will continue to make bad choices. Past experience is a good teacher!
These kids are so eloquent and well spoken. They're able to form valid arguments and stand up what they believe in. I'm so proud of the younger generation. They're going to change the world.
Clearly these children have been reading.
@@daverhoden445
Clearly these kids are brainwashed!
They are reading children's books and they are high school students. Hell, it showed you in the first 30 seconds of the video. They are less than the width of my pinky.
How did everybody look but not see that.
@@gemannable Clearly, if being able to form valid arguments and stand up for what you believe in is "brainwashing" to you, you probably didn't read much and/or never had brilliant teachers! Awww.... so sorry for you! :(((
@@jacobseymour7743 :)))) You got that backwards, sir. They are high school students that read those children books when they WERE children, and now see how their little brothers and sisters, and their future children perhaps, would be deprived of that chance growing up. What actually made them be so able to take a stand and speak so clearly is EXACTLY the fact that they already read those books!
Do you really think their backlash at banning books is because... they want to read those books and they didn't had the opportunity yet?! :)))
Banning a book will get everyone to immediately read it. I would, I just might order them right now!
My boys (age 5 and 6) love the Rosa Parks book! It’s by Brad Metzer or Meltzer?
PLEASE ORDER THE BOOKS because I’m worried my black grandchildren will have to fight to stamp out this anti racist sentiment.
Best advertising you can do, ban something very few people have heard of.
I thought you radicalized leftists loved censorship? What changed?
@@apep7188 and they didn't burn books in 1930s Germany either.
That scene of a dozen white people sitting around saying "bad things" are in those books really made me want to puke. Yes, Pennsylvania, there is systemic racism!
They know. They dont want to draw attention to it so they can keep it going.
I am a 75 yr old black caribbean woman. My dad had us reading Readers Digest condensed version at 10 years old. Taught us kids fractions, decimals, multiplication, additions, subtraction, devision, before it was taught in school. He didn't sit and wait on the school system. Buy the book and have your kid read it. Pass it on when the kid is done. Talk about it witj your friends. Come on my people. Do it for yourself and the kids. Please do not tell me you do not have the time. Form little groups, less than six kids in a basement or backyard. Do something. Stop wasting time and energy with the so called educators.
“Don’t teach about bad things …. “
It’s just like saying POISON KILLS but I don’t want my child to know because it might hurt them … 😅😂🤣
That's must be why they stopped with the Mr. Yuk campaign and stickers for harmful chemicals around the house. It all makes sense now.
These right wing dopes have always taken the position that they want their kids selectively ignorant to what is actually out there in society. Just telling them something exists = kids wanting to do it with these little brains.
Next up-
"All books and films on ww2 were banned in florida today" school districts rule that they are "too violent".
@@mangofett6210 And yet the insurrection is not too violent for Cancel culture RepubliCONs.
It seems they want the North Korean style of education. All about glorifying the nation, teaching that nothing wrong ever happened because USA can do no wrong, and illegalizing anything that goes against their glorification.
“Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.”
Could be those opposing these books are hoping for it.
@@JadenKaye You make a very good point.
That is the exact reason my state has a law that middle schoolers MUST be taught the Holocaust and not just what happened but WHY. There is so much we need to learn from history. I can’t wait to see what they say about Covid in the future and what they can learn from this pandemic…..Banning these books is absolutely not acceptable.
Truer words were never spoken.
Respect to these students for standing up for things related to their education
Wonder if they support teaching "The Diary of Anne Frank?"
They might ban that one too!
What exactly is just cause for banning these books? "Oh, I don't like them, they have to go." I don't like this school board, they have to go!
Brad Meltzer (author of "I am Rosa Parks") was on Fox News.
Probably irate parents…who don’t know whereof they speak.
Its called racism
@@zammymynakersnackstbmoth racism and play the victim. Meanwhile they broke into the capitol and said hey hang the vice president.
I would move my kid out of that district so fast their head would spin.
I would too.
If you're of color they wouldn't care. They'd probably toast to it.
Racist, bigoted school board. I Grew up, fortunately that inclusiveness and reading everything you were interested in was encouraged. Had opportunity to walk through the remodeled public library where I learned so much just couple days ago. #GRATEFUL
Why do you fall for this?
Kudos to you john...be safe out there brotha 👍✊
Proud of all these students and teachers standing up to this shameful decision by this ignorant and short-sighted School Board. We can't erase history no matter how egregious, the students can handle truth - give them the information and allow them to learn from the past.
Our youth better wake up to this lunatic and his fascist BS. It's their future. America's too!
Glad they brought up the concerns ...
But the adults did nothing about it besides some yap. Stop the yap and do something! Like a lawsuit!
I mean a school board full of all white folks, not a single person of color?? How did they manage to get thst four-of-a-kind??? Geezzzzz!
How many statues were removed by the left and liberals? The irony!!
Smh wtf is going on in the US right now, I feel like we took 15 years backwards after Trump. Disgusting!!!!
U are right
We didnt end fascism, it's just on hold.
"White Fragility" is a book about why it is difficult for white people to talk about racism.
Scott Jennings singling it out, simply for the title, without a clue as to its subject is a perfect example of why it SHOULD BE in the curriculum.
And yet these banned books would only be resources and not a required part of the curriculum.
@Vulvasaurus Lix
I think your screen name would make his head explode.
If he understood the meaning of it, that is to say.
White Fragility belongs in EVERY SINGLE CLASSROOM! He needs to read it himself.
@temet nosce The comedian Bill Burr said as much on a talk show, that people usually are only concerned about what directly affects them. They are selfish. We don't have a monopoly on this in the USA, but we own a big chunk of that real estate.
Brad Meltzer (author of "I am Rosa Parks") was on Fox News.
@@cujoe3192
So what?
I am so looking forward to these young people growing up & taking over!!! Go teens, go!!! I believe in you!!!
Hitler was into banning and burning books too
So were Stalin and Mao. But nobody is burning books here.
Donnie has been mirroring 1930's Hitler and what he did to Germany. Now that the WW2 vets and people are going, or gone, the fascists are back!
@@waltergrace565 Yeah, banning is the modern fascist way, but the kids have the internet and a educated kid likes our American democracy.
@@ww2remembered983 Yeah, but nobody is banning books here.
@@waltergrace565 no one said books are being burnt. It’s the fact that they don’t need to be reviewed in the first place. How about being on the side of Racial equality instead of against it
I go to this school. When me and some friends read about the ban from a York Dispatch article, we were pretty confused on why the ban even took place. No one I knew could quite put together the logic that they kept bringing up. Apparently the books were “one sided,” but isn’t every book like that? I think it is essential to learn all the sides of a story to truly understand it. It is a pretty simply concept to understand. I am currently a freshman, and feel as if the school board could be doing so much better than they currently are. The students that are protesting the ban are truly inspiring and respectable.
Brilliant point! I'm so glad you have such good teachers, as opposed to those board members... This s**t that they're doing now, in your school, should be a life-long lesson for you, kids: always speak up for fairness, never be one-sided and READ. Critical thinking is the best asset as an adult, as well as a kid! Congrats to the students that take a stance on this principles!
What’s the update on this ban almost a year later. I need to know!❣️
Those who banned these books know exactly the power of education. How can you remove racism from people, education. The more you banned something, the more curious people become.
Some people seem hellbent on taking us all back to the Dark Ages.
In many ways. They want the church in government and it's A coincidence the minority book's were banned...
Yeah, Democrats.
The Dark Ages was called that because the Bible was BANNED and most ppl in Europe couldn't read or write. It was illegal to read scripture and Martin Luther discovered manuscripts of the Bible and realized the 'Church' was keeping truth from the world therefore Martin Luther started a revolution...the PROTEST-ANT movement and when ppl begin to learn to read through the Bible they slowly came out of the DARK...DARK AGES...and light begin to dawn...this is true historical fact. Banning books =banning light.
This is why I have faith in the young generation.
If you have faith in this generation you’re fucked
I'm so glad my junior goes to HS in a blue state. She has access to real history, reads real books with a variety of viewpoints and ideas, and will be a leader in America someday because of it.
Amen. I have four kids who have had the opportunity to attend schools in California. I have a senior right now, she is extremely knowledgeable about current politics as well as history. There's a kid in one of her classes who she calls the "racist", he has Trumper parents. She's also a redhead, so she pulls no punches LOL!
I live in a red confederate state but my child goes to a private school where the government has no reach 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@flamingoboot8874 lucky for you but I feel for red states kids without privilege.
@@finnfan33 Spoken like someone who hasn't lived in (or perhaps even visited) a red state.
Btw, this happened in Pennsylvania (purple state).
@@MrJames1471 wow are you proving my point. I've lived in NC, TX, and am now in the midwest. BS boi
It's sad how ppl don't want to face the truth!
Like having white ancestry if you are mixed race.
The book about Malala is so good, the way it is written is simplified, she is so inspiring. Standing up even though she was shot, wanting to go to school. That was it, this is on the strength of one young girl when Taliban came to her village. She stood up to them, a 15 yr old girl, then shot multiple times, yet living through it. She won a Nobel Prize!!! A NOBEL PRIZE!!!
If I had the money I'd stand outside on the sidewalk in front of every school in the district and hand out a copy of each banned book to every kid that would take one.
Every kid would take every one. There is nothing that gets kids more excited about reading than a book ban!
Yeah that would be great, and start a literature circle where you read and discuss the banned books.
Parents are afraid their children might feel guilty, while the child wants to know. The parents are scared full-stop.
Perhaps what parent are afraid of is that there children ask them question they can’t answer, or won’t answer because they are the ones with the guilt.
@@isidralopezortiz4366 Agreed, the guilt is defintely projected onto the kids.
What is thier to be guilty about?
@@isidralopezortiz4366 Not really. Most Americans are clueless about history. And all you guys care about is what whitey did and disregard all the other things.
@@samman3688 The kids have nothing to feel guilty about, since the can fix it. Maybe they (the parents) honored the people who owned slaves or supported discrimination? Or perhaps the parents don't like to admit they might be wrong or that their ancestors were wrong? Or maybe they would prefer a pre-Civil Rights situation?
Mostly I just think it challenges their feelings of self-righteousness and moral superiority. And hiding facts that don't jive with your opinion of yourself and the world around you is a great way to not have to put out the effort to change things for the better. They don't want to be challenged and asked questions by their children.
Go head Ashley. Preach it sister. Everything she said makes so much sense 🙌🙌🙌🙌
Nazi Party alive and well in America, and it is spelled with an "R"
You know there's an r in Democrat right?
@@ShadowWizard123 Not a capital R...
You could have just said started with R
@@ShadowWizard123 Wasn't me who made the comment 🤷♀️
Yep
I never got why people banned books in schools. It would just make me seek out the book more
I also would like to know explicitly why they want to band the book.
@@spectacularrichbeautybrilli agreed. When I was 17 I read a clockwork orange in my school library and fully understand why under the school system that could only be taken out by students in the final two years. These kids books are completely harmless
@@c17sam90 😰 WHY was a Clockwork Orange in a high school library???
@@spectacularrichbeautybrilli psychology students needed it for study. I have no issue with books like that being available. However I should add I got most of my education in England so it’s a different system. Also I don’t think think many people could actually read it due to all the Nadsat
@@c17sam90 Ah ha! Got it...That explains it all. It makes a good teaching tool, but the school should only allow those Psyche major students special permission to borrow it...w/ required parental/teacher guidance. Hm, Interesting 🤔