Roundtable: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Name Removed From Book Award | Megyn Kelly TODAY
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- The American Library Association voted unanimously to have “Little House on the Prairie” author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name stripped from the title of a prestigious children’s book award because her writings reflected “dated cultural attitudes toward indigenous people and people of color.” NBC’s Craig Melvin, NBC News political analyst Elise Jordan and New York Times investigative reporter Megan Twohey join Megyn Kelly TODAY to discuss the controversial decision.
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Roundtable: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Name Removed From Book Award | Megyn Kelly TODAY
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Laura Ingalls told how life was then. Don't take anything away from her and what she contributed.
Debbie Hull I agree
And anyone who has ever read those books should remember how Pa Ingalls thought of and spoke of the Native Indians. He didn’t hate them, look down on them and thought they should be treated fairly. He even said, and I’m paraphrasing here ( believe it was in The Little House on the Prairie book), “that the government had moved them off their land so many times that they couldn’t help but create a hatred toward the whiteman.” And it’s a belief he voices many times, in many different books.
Debbie Hull I agree with you 100 percent
Debbie Hull
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
+jane Patton
Here's a question: If you despise our history and what we stand for as a people so much, why are you living in our civilization? Leave. We don't need cultural marxist filth like you trying to undermine our way of life and destroy our history.
Laura Ingalls Wilder tells the story of a black doctor who came into their home and cured the whole family of illness, at a time when people were dying. There was not one word in recounting this story that was racist. When I read the book I was in awe that there was a black doctor at that time who saved their lives.
Michele D'Cunha oh stop it
K kristian What's your problem??
Michele D'Cunha In the TV series, there were stories involving black characters that were treated with respect and were considered equals. Cheers
True. He cured them of malaria - from the late summer mosquitos.
@@SAS-wm2gm It's the books specifically though, not the (much fictionalized) series.
I'm completely saddened by this. When will this stop...
Marcia Never because they keep getting away with it. Look at all of the statues across America - gone. Many destroyed.
Marcia Wilso
No one's taking her books off the shelf. They are renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
jane Patton Its unfortunate you see it that way. You missed my point completely. Rewriting history is wrong. It should be left alone removing her name is just faze one. People should be aware of diversity of the times. Calling out my parenting skills are pretty low you don't know me just voicing my opinion.
As a native American and fan of Laura Ingall's Wilder, I can tell you I am not offended by her name on this Award or on anything else that she wrote. She wrote from the true time that she remembered as a child. She saw a vast time period with rapid change in her life time. What do you think the time was really like traveling across the prairie in a covered wagon with Indian land being taken from them? Shame on those who want to erase History. We need to remember all History and teach it so we repeat the good and do not repeat the bad. Judgemental much? Calling anyone that one doesn't personally know a bad parent seems very small minded.
@@penelopej1996 not all native Americans are like this but the ones in the book literally could have killed her and her family and I heard she did apologize for how she worded some things
I'm part-Native American myself, and while I can appreciate the spirit in which this was done, I say that the award should still retain its name. As the guy pointed out, we should see literature in the context of the time and place in which it was written.
Delilah Hart the series actually introduced me to the plight of natives and sparked lifelong respect and compassion for Native Americans and their culture.
Delilah Hart true that. We should confront it. Erasing it doesn't count.
Delilah Hart We'll said👍
Delilah Hart ❤️🕊❤️
WhirledPeace so this is the thread where whites are getting together to congratulate the whites by pretending to be another race? There's always that one
I can't believe this! I'm black, and LOVED the Little House books! My great-grandmother loved the Little House TV series while she lived. I'm not okay with this change. Racism is a horrible thing, but to indict an author for writing from HER perspective and HER era will not solve it either.
Thank you. I'm actually re-reading the books now. They were wonderful. While life was so much physically harder back then, it was also simpler and in some ways much happier. With all of our conveniences and comforts and luxuries, we 1st world moderns are largely miserable.
I think not ENOUGH kids grow up with that series, personally. I watched it when I was growing up, and watched it with my kids when they were growing up. My kid's father was absent, and its hard trying to teach a son how to be a man when you aren't one. My son told me he took his cues on what kind of man he wanted to be by watching Charles Ingalls, and how he did things. You can really see it in the man he has become. I will always be thankful for that.
She had an issue with Native American but not with Black American
@@coreylevine3856 she did not have an issue with native Americans. It was a different time with different understanding. Doesn’t me she had an issue with anyone.
Dr. Tan, a gentleman of color saved Laura’s parents!!! They are crazy!!!! And I miss Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the Indian gal on the Land of Lakes butter!!!!!
I can say Indian because I’m part Chickasaw. Aunt Jemima was the most famous of all. How dare these people erase her!!! They’re probably far left liberal white folks.
The world has gone mad 🤦♂️
sean love This world's already mad and had been for an extremely long time. Sorry to say it'll get worse too as time goes on. 😪
F'ing leftists ruin everything. Yet conservatives are totalitarians... projection much?
Feel like Warner Bros. response to racist Looney Toones is relevant here, “The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were common place in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today’s society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.”
Yes, Wilder’s books did harmfully depict Native Americans, but those depictions did not come from a place of hate but from unintentional ignorance. She knew no better. To hold her to our present day standards of acceptance, diversity and tolerance would be unfair and historically unrealistic. We have to remember that these views, albeit damaging, were socially acceptable and seemingly unchallenged in America at this time. To strip Wilder of her accolades diminishes her undeniable strengths as a writer and the value and insight her words provide to our early history, warts and all.
Well said!
👌🏽
Sarah B Totally agree!
Sarah B The problem is that they play these cartoons around the world. There is no explanation then. If you are African American or can contrive to appear as though you are of black descent ,and travel in Asia and India, you just might be honoured to be treated to the results of racist depictions of black people. It is such a privilege to live life free if such considerations and consequences. Ignorance is utter bliss for some people.
But Laura Ingalls Wilder's writings were nothing like loony tunes. She was hardly a reactionary racist. She wrote thoughtfully most of the time when it came to diverse races.
We still celebrate colombus day but we can't celebrate the achievements of Laura Ingalls Wilder anymore? Like seriously I can't even with this.
Anyone who experiences the slightest insult from either is batshiat crazy.
Well columbus was considered crazy evil even for his day he sold native americans dead bodies as dog food sooo....
There's only so much stupidity one can listen to in a lifetime..... most times I see a title & thumbnail and sigh... just sigh
I know right and it was $18 so I don't understand that's how they talked in the 1800's I think it's a learning opportunity.
Yeah, and Columbus never stepped foot on America.
Absolutely shameful. These people are the reason why I'm not a liberal anymore.
Kegan Mahon Smart move! Welcome:)
Kegan Mahon glad to hear you’ve woken up too!
welcome.
Yes we will need every single one on the battlefield 🇺🇸 Godbless
#WalkAway
1984 and George Orwell, here we are !
Dude I really believe your right on point
Dude Only a matter of time until they start torching those sucker's too. Literary classics are just too edgy...
Why does everyone always go to 1984? Orwell got a lot right, but I think Huxley got way more right with Brave New World.
True...but didn't he use it in contrast to how things actually were in 1984 as a means of advertising his product to a growing consumerist society, something Huxley predicted? I know you meant that as a joke but I couldn't help myself.
Fahrenheit 451 next...
So let’s rewrite all history and only modern views are acceptable now, because everyone is so triggered. Lol
And now you understand Communism.
Exactly!
Katharine Z it's so crazy to believe this is the world now ... Everyone is focused on the wrong thing ...
Except for how the mean ol white man enslaved the blacks. They will never let that go!
Katharine Z You are so right! I totally 100% agree with you! We can't change our past, we need to embrace it and learn from our mistakes, otherwise we will end up repeating it!
She wrote appreciatively of the black doctor who cared for her family when they had malaria.
Toot Uncommon Yes she did. He was a real doctor too. He was a doctor to the Indians that lived in the area. Dr George Tann his grave site I believe is in the state of Pennsylvania.
Toot Uncommon No one's taking her books off the shelf. They are renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
therocketgirlchannel What are you wearing?
@@janepatton8100 Laura didn't feel that way about Indians. Read pages 476 and 477 of Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser. It was a poor choice of words on her part that she admitted to. She also spoke highly of Indians in her books.
And she didn't speak ill of indians either. Pa certainly respected them. It was Ma who disliked the Indians, but it wasn't so understandable. If my family was the only people around in a huge prairie and suddenly a couple Indians came into my house, I'd be scared of them too (let's be honest, the warriors look intimidating).
The saddest day for children’s literature. Shame on you American library association!
I'll back that up 100%. Her books are historically accurate and true. Her values reflect the times that she grew up in. America is losing it's collective mind and so is the rest of the West. Pray for "The Great Rewakening" before we are doomed.
I'll back that up 100%. Her books are historically accurate and true. Her values reflect the times that she grew up in. America is losing it's collective mind and so is the rest of the West. Pray for "The Great Rewakening" before we are doomed.
So the mark twain award is still out there and meghan said the n word was used many times but yet lauras name is now bring stripped of the award wtf? I read those books never clued into the references about indians at all she just described them for the time period of what they were and what he pa had said about them. Her books showed how hard life was on the prairie was but there were fun times too. Its sad that she no longer lives to speak up 4 her writings and there are no more direct living descendts to speak 4 her. Pioneer girl was her original story but had to really be cleaned up 4 kids it was much harsher. I hope there is enough out cry to make them keep her name on it.
Am rose Just give it a minute.
He is a man.....so...you decide.
The president of the organization that took away the Ingalls award is Nina Lindsay and she can be seen in the video "banned: Nina Lindsay" lamenting the banning of some particular LGBT books. Perhaps little house may have committed the crime of being too hetero?
This is so sad.... Laura and her family were such good people...
For you to be this genuinely offended by a television show that came out in the mid 70's and takes place in the late 1800's you've got some serious growing up to do and a long, hard, miserable life to lead...
So ridiculously brittle this "Handle with Care" generation is
TheOneTheOnly W - Well said.
I don’t normally comment on videos here but this is sad. Laura Ingalls Wilder was my childhood hero and she will forever be a hero to me. Her writings are a piece of history. To accurately quote what was written, Laura did not write there were no “people”; only “Indians” lived there. She wrote as far as the eye could see, there were no “settlers”; only “Indians” lived there.
These people should be absolutely ashamed. How dare they strip her name and honor away
The quackers were pro minority in some respects during that time. But why not just put a warning on the books about content. Just as other things have been addressed. Do not ban the existence of the books or its writer in any way. I do not believe in banning books or authors from history. Just help others to understand the historical context. Keep the award in her name. Female writers were not given respect for their contribution during that time either, and that is historically significant also.
Yes, the QUAKERS were very much anti-slavery, but more than a few of them did own slaves. A prime example of that: Dolley Madison (nee Payne) had a black mammy. However, when she moved with her first husband (John Todd) to Philadelphia, they had no slaves. After being widowed and then marrying James Madison, she shed her QUAKER ways and became 100% abolitionist. People changed and learn. And if that learning is positive, the change is always for the good.
MelboNet Store No one is banning her books. They just took her name off an award.
MelboNet Store
No one is banning books! PAY ATTENTION!
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
@@janepatton8100 🤦🏼♀️
If you need a warning to read a book, you are beyond weak and imbecilic.
Let's strip Albert Einstein of his Physics Nobel award because he once said a bad thing about women.
S L He treated his first wife like crud. That is being kind. You can find the letters he sent to her before WW2.
He left his former wife and one son in post WW2 Europe. One son was committed for psychological disorders.
He came to the US. He married a first or second cousin I believe.
Brilliant scientist no question. Not so nice a guy in many ways.
I just bought a Little House on the Prairie shirt off of Etsy and I'm wearing it proudly. I love the books and the show. I think it's ridiculous that they are renaming Laura's award.
cheleh87
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
I am quite liberal generally but I find this ridiculous. We must stop trying to censor history; there is too much to be learned from it. Mrs Wilder in no way promotes racism; she was reporting on her experiences during that time period. I’ve reread these as an adult and my big takeaway is how much growth we’ve made both technologically and socially.
This is happening now with forgetting history. Maxine Waters rallies bigotry, yet I'm sure she suffered before the civil Rights act due to bigotry.
Just the part where you say "I am quite Liberal", I stopped reading
Robyn Waugh
No one's taking her books off the shelf. They are renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
Cry me a river
The nonsense of this form of censorship so prevalent today is that it is the polar opposite of liberalism. It amazes me that academics read Orwell and just don't get it.
Laura wrote about her life and times. Nothing should be removed or changed. Wonderful lady.
I was shocked to hear this loved little house on the prairie that was in her time I just don't understand
Cynthia Denniston we must not let this happen agenda 21 is striping us of all our memories of history it will be a lot easier for the elitist to take over was they have forge a wedge in our memories
Cynthia Denniston
No one's taking her books off the shelf. They are renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
This is so stupid that is the way things were at that time and if you take it away history will repeat itself.
The Desert Angel Homestead History will repeat itself because humans haven’t changed, not because of of what has or hasn’t been written down.
The Desert Angel Homestead
No one's taking her books off the shelf. They are renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
emayaych Good point. We need the Gospel!!!
The Desert Angel Homestead LMAO IT NEVER STOPPED YOUR ARGUMENT HOLDS NO MERIT!
Cancel culture or PC culture reminds me of the movie/book "The Giver" where all of history was just deleted and only new age made up information could be taught or discussed.
As part native american, laura's books never, EVER offended me. I loved those books and still do. They aren't racist. If i had some dudes running up in my house smelling like skunk and stealing my tobacco I'd be afraid too. (Btw I'm a third native incase you were wondering)
It's a travesty that they changed the name of the book award.
Comrade Stalin's legacy lives on.
George Applegate This is not good.
And the Laura Ingalls award for the most "WTF" comment in this dumpster fire of a comment thread goes too....
We must destroy our history, our heritage, and our culture if we're ever to be united as one, Comrade! We must destroy ourselves and everything we stand for so we can be molded into one unit!
And now you see how history is literally changed and re written!!! Absolutely disgusted
I'm Choctaw indian, her words are not harmful, ONLY uneducated to a point.. but a great writer
I think it's wrong to remove Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from this award, and we can't wash away history or how someone writes a book and other things. But Megyn Kelly needs to go back and take a history class, there were alot of white people who were pro minority people in the 1800's. William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Wendell Phillips, and countless others.
mal0980
No one's taking her books off the shelf. They are renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
Stop spamming everyone Jane.
There were definitely white people who opposed slavery -- but that does NOT mean that they believed in racial equality. You would be hard-pressed to find any white people who would have agreed that black people were equal.
@@kck9742 But that doesn't mean they didn't either.
@@janepatton8100 How can you say that when Laura's pa was friends with Indians?
I think the public should have a big say in decision of if the if the LAURA INGALLS WILDER name is removed from the award. I find it patronising for a closed group neo liberals to feel offended on everyone's behalf.
Sloth
No one's taking her books off the shelf. They are renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
@@janepatton8100 , spare me your White Savior Complex.
Wokeness went too far. Little House on the Prairie was one of the first books I read without pictures (the first was "Shane", [I went through a phase where I was reading about the Wild West and the Oregan Trail era]) and it pained me to hear the name of Laura Ingalls Wilder being crushed by idiots.
Now the Republicans are banning books right, left and center.
Love Laura ingels
Only in America 😔
I think we all need to stop getting so butt hurt about EVERYTHING and just help each other andnlove each other and get thru this crazy life together. Seriously just chill
Thus is so sad, it was a different time, people thought differently, they need to leave this alone, this is education, this country has lost its mind.
Jacqueline Dixon
Slow down chief. No one's taking her books off the shelf. They are renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
One of the first books i choose to read as a child, it is a part of social history of its time, I adored her omnibus.x
The reason for the award being taken away from her is the perfect reason why she should be allowed to keep it! It can be used to show how much progress has been made since she wrote her books.
But see, you're making sense. I've come to the conclusion that leftists are literally demented.
This is terrible, we have to learn from our past not hid from it.
Cindy Favre
Slow down chief. No one's taking her books off the shelf or trying to rewrite America as anything other than a racist nation. They are simply renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
The books are old. She wrote about what happened as she was growing up. Back then that was how she saw the world
It's my understanding that this award rewards children who may be our authors of tomorrow. So now we are limiting our children's creativity? How can we teach free speech to our children when politically correctness is destroying it?
Sharon W. There is no free speech just a country of acceptance.
Political correctness but no censorship
Martina Murray. Political Correctness interferes with the 1st Amendment. The liberals have rewritten American History so much that I don't even recognize it.
Sharon W. Recognising that some of what people in the past thought was also racist isn't being too politically correct when it'd made clear to people. Censoring or airbrushing People out of history would be censorship and too much political correctness
Martina Murray When I went to school I was taught the the pilgrims came to America to escape the Church if England and for religious freedom. All reference to Christianity had been taken out of the history books by the time my youngest son was learning about the colonies. My granddaughter told me last night that she can't talk about Jesus at school. The schools celebrates Halloween but cannot display a Nativity scene. History is history and we need to learn the facts so we can ensure that we never repeat our mistakes.
I was born in a segregated south. I remember seeing blacks sit at the back of the bus. I remember when my school was desegregated and being sent home because of fighting in the halls. Taking away the Confederate monuments, the Confederate flag and the "Dukes of Hazzard" does not charge our nation's history but it denies all children the chance to learn that equality was fought for and sometimes died for. There were good people on both sides of the civil war. A large number of Confederate soldiers were not slave owners and civil war was fought over more than just the issue of slavery. We need to teach the good and the bad, not try to rewrite history. Knowing everything that blacks have lived through and overcome in the US is awe inspiring and shouldn't be erased or rewritten. Sometimes history is ugly but it's still history.
See what being "PC" does? Stop being so freaking touchy people. Dang!
VidVoyeur This is not political correctness, it's actually a staple of fascism- revising and scrubbing history of blemishes and mistakes in order to make the state seem benevolent and infallible...
VidVoyeur
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
OMG! Dated writing! How could this happen?? Why would people write in such a manner that reflects the times they live???
No matter how many books or statues people try to do away with the fact remains that the history is still the same!
Laura Ingalls wrote the Little House Books in the 1930's and she was reflecting back on the 1870's. She never said those were her own feelings.
My great grandma was born in the 1800’s and died in the 2000’s. She was just shy of being 104. She had many stories and saw things that most never will. No one has the right to take away from history. That’s exactly what it was....history.
Dam ..you americans are slowly going crazy...
They're crazy
Help me...
Derek It never ends however it is these crazies, Hollyweird and our evil media that like cancer has spread worldwide.
Let's just scrub history altogether. This is so sad. Look at what Laura Ingalls Wilder accomplished as a female at a time when many females were stay at home Moms. She was telling her truth as she lived it. What's next? Martin Luther King Jr's name being stripped from roads, bridges, buildings and statues removed because he was a pastor that cheated on his wife. Thus removing all the great work that this living legend accomplished for civil rights over something many people have done themselves. At the time Laura Ingalls Wilder lived, that's how life was. It was everyone's truth. Wonder what we as a nation are doing today that will be frowned on in the future even though we believe we are doing the right thing? Perhaps removing statues, saying Dr Seuss is racist for drawing chinese as he did, or removing Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from an award. I guess destroying everything in the Library of Alexandria was a bright idea also. Sigh, it's just sad... Laura Ingalls Wilder is dead and can not defend herself. Perhaps it's best that she is not alive to see this horror.
No he was black so he's perfectly safe. You don't get it.
MLK is safe. He is black and therefore anyone trying to destroy his "legacy" would be considered a racist.
Sherry D.
No one's taking her books off the shelf. They are renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
Should we candy coat history? Just because I don't agree with you doesn't reflect on my parenting nor empathy toward others. Callous of you to say such a personal thing toward me. Your opinion stated should have been enough.
jane Like that will ever happen. A Black girl will get it through Affirmative Awarding. It is our history, it has nothing to do with bad parenting, take your triggered moronic self and go to your safe place, and shut up!
Not to mention Pa had as gun. They grew their own vegetables. they went to church.
So, they get the whitest black guy to talk about this!??!?!
Laura admired the black doctor who cared for her whole family when they were very sick. He was the first black person she had ever seen and she commented on his kindness as well as his handsome black skin and very white teeth.
People cannot handle the truth of history, how things weren't understood and yet it teaches us so much. I've heard many people want to rewrite history as though that helps anything today.
Poor Laura,. What good will come from disrespecting our ancestors? Are they about to remove awards & recognition from former American Presidents too? Cause they wrote some pretty offensive stuff in the line of their work. Poor Laura, they could have updated/reshaped her award but apparently forgot how tactful looks & sounds like.
This sanitization of history is insane. It's infuriating!!
Whinners can't leave anything alone. These people think anything that is good and don't have any of this now days junk! Sick of it all!!!!!
Kathy Pope
Slow down chief. No one's taking her books off the shelf. They are renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
@@janepatton8100 she wrote truthfully on what she had thought as a child.
Oh ffs, seriously?
Laura Ingalls Wilder told of what was happening during her life. Using terms that were acceptable during her time. Laura helped us to see the past, bring us there, and shows us how far we've come. Is this the "Progress" that the people of her time foresaw?
That's truly sad. It's like some people want to erase history because it does not stand up to the morals we have today.
I'm part Missourian and I love her books. With the internet, her books will be around forever, they will never destroyed. 🙂
A librarian told me if we go to our local libraries and complain we can fix this as it counts there.
I feel if we change what thoughts that formed our history then we fail to acknowledge what we've done. The man on her panel is very spot on in his assesment...i don't know his name but respect his insights on this subject...💙
WHAT BS IS THAT CHILDREN ,NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HISTORY . YES SHE SHOULD BE AWARDED .AND I PROTEST THIS ACTION .I WILL TELL EVERY CHILD ,THAT HER BOOKS ARE THE BEST AND SHOULD BE READ .
She is one of my heroes. My favorite show of all time.
Times were different back then! You can't rewrite history based on modern values.
I won't be one bit surprised if history gets re-written or gets thrown out of our schools because of PC.
Oh, you have no idea.
Angelia Gurner
No one's taking her books off the shelf. They are renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
Angelia jane Patton ----> paid troll
Vicki Takacs -----> White Supremacist.
jane You seem to be in the minority on that opinion. I'd think again.
This comment will probably be blocked from view but I’ll post it anyway. This is how you begin to wipe out history. First you remove accolades to diminish the author, the next step is making it controversial plus dangerous and then you shame people for reading the material until it is socially unacceptable. Once you reach this stage you have effectively censored the material. The reason they selected this author is because the books are predominantly read by children. There is a song in the “South Pacific” with the lyric, ‘you have to be carefully taught’.
Even reading her books as a kid, I took her language in describing the natives in Dakota Territory in the context of the narrative perspective of the book, that of a 7 or 8 year old in the 1860s. There was a certain cute naiveté in the perspective she painted and language she chose. It was authentic in its sharing the perspective of a little girl who, prior to their travels west, had led a relatively sheltered life in the very small community in the woods of Wisconsin.
Mrs. Wilder also wrote with great admiration and appreciation about Dr. Tann-a real doctor- Who saved her family’s life when they were stricken with malaria. She’s she wrote with great admiration about him. His real life story is an interesting one.
I don't really agree with stripping Laura Ingall's Wilder name from the award. BUT, if you are going to do this on account of having misalligned values, then you should be consistent and do it across the board. Why is there a Mark Twain award when he used the n word 200+ times in Huck Finn? It doesn't seem right. Be fair and consistent, or just don't make the change at all.
Christine Claiborne
No one's taking her books off the shelf. They are renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
jane Patton jane shutup with your trolling!!! No one cares about your point that isn't shared by many. Open your mind.
I live in a large city in Ontario Canada. All Little House books were pulled from school libraries back in the mid 90s when my oldest was in grade school. They were tossed in the trash with a " free" sign to anyone who wanted to take them. I spent an hour fishing them all out & still have them to this day. The reasoning behind this was that the school boards did not like the way women were subservient to men. Had nothing to do with racism. I dont even think our local library has them anymore either.
As if librarians need to alienate people. They apparently have too many patrons, oh wait, its like a ghost town in most libraries.
Orwell would be proud
I'm sure they will get their way...we let them run off with everything else. Standing idley by while psychos with grandiose delusional disorders run the "free" world, is what we do now a days. Sad but true unfortunately 😑
but thats what she lived. so ridiculous.
Thank you Craig Melvin!! I found your name, Thanks for your insightful comments..
I'm so sick of PC culture......like literally want to erase history!?!? It was THOSE TIMES, NOT MODERN TIMES my goodness!!!
I'm a registered Independent and I think removing Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from the children's book award is STUPID, STUPID, and STUPID. As a lover and supporter of the arts, even I am able to distinguish the times 100-150 years ago to the times today.
Jeez, does everyone have to get offended by everything nowadays?
I think we should always strive to be better than we were the day before, but in order to do that we can’t forget our past. If you forget the past you’re going to make the same mistakes over and over. We have to be willing to take ownership of our past and our mistakes.
Good Grief!!! Give me a break, let just re-write our whole history all the way back to the beginning!!!
I think history should be left alone
Give me a break! Her name should remain on the award-what they are now saying is she’s no longer worthy
I day whoever wins the newly named award should give it back.
This is the Queston that needs to be asked. Did she make a Great contrebution to the cause of Literacy in Children ? Do her books give a gateway for children to learn to read. If yes , then the Award should stay in her name.
Just want to say that Michael Landon as Charles Ingalls provoked a struggle in me... I wish I were Laura so he were my Pa, and Caroline, so he were my Charles.😍
I'm a little late in the game. Just saw this clip. I'm a grandmother and Little House books are still my favorites. Read them to my kids and can't wait to read to my grandkids. Pa was actually very forward thinking for those times. I remember some stereotypes in the books that wouldn't go over well today and Ma was terrified of Indians but I always felt that, from a historical perspective, race was handled very well - not only for when the stories take place but also for when they were published.
In "Little House on the Prairie" Laura writes about Dr. Tanner, an African-American doctor, who saved the Ingalls family's life when they all got malaria. She also talked about how proud the Native American's looked while walking or riding their ponies (Yes, she called them Indians, I don't think the term Native American was in widespread use in the 1930's, when she wrote her books). In "Little Town on the Prairie" she writes about her first job working for wages, and becoming a schoolteacher. But yes, she does write about a minstrel show put on by the men in town, and they wear blackface (During this time period minstrel shows were popular in the big cities, and the performers were mostly while men in blackface). She also does mention that her "Ma hated Indians." But where did this hatred come from? Fear of course, Ma grew up with stories of massacres, settlers killed by Indians. The stories are written by Laura's based on her viewpoint, her experiences.
I don't consider Laura Ingalls Wilder racist it was a sign of the times it was 1800s for Christ sakes I mean that's how they talked. So let me get this straight we can celebrate a man who massacred Indians yet they take away the Laura Ingalls Wilder award that makes no sense to me.
To be fair, have you read up on the Aztecs? They had it coming.
Maia Jones
No one's taking her books off the shelf. They are renaming an award so that a young Native American girl can enjoy winning the award without feeling hurt or shame by the eponym's writings.
One question: How would you feel if your daughter won an award that was named after a person who wouldn't even consider her a human being?
If pondering this question doesn't change your mind on this matter, then you are either incapable of empathizing or are a bad parent.
P.S. Columbus day is next... baby steps.
You know who was pro minority in 1861, MINORITIES!
1861? The Little House books actually begin in 1871 when Laura was four. And for the record, "LHOTP" was the first book, and "Little House in the Big Woods" was the second (despite being released opposite that).
I am all for political correctness. But Ingalls was amazing and her writing was common for her day. She also changed some of her writing, including the "Indians" comment, later and apologized. But that's not getting noted.
Absolutely outrageous!!!!!
Translation: "We'll control the narrative....".
she even brought up the black doctor who came to their rescue in the little house on the prarie book. she didn't say anything derogatory towards him.
The American Library Association has lost the meaning of their core values by changing the name of the Laura Ingalls Wilder award. Ridiculous!
good talk, good talk.
ridiculous, they can't change her experiences
My school is called "Wilder"
I'm extremely liberal, and I am all for political correctness, but we can't hold material written 100 years ago to the same standard of appropriate language as literature written today.
It's historical series. People have freaking out of their minds.