Bill Mason 🖖 🎶 📖 🥅Apr 16, 2023

This story is making the rounds as "the book has been banned". That's not the case. Yes, the irony is palpable and that the book is being debated at all after being read as a yearly event apparently without incident is questionable at best.

But if you're going to be mad, be mad about the actual facts. They're troubling enough.

"District That Named School After Black Author Rules Parts Of His Memoir 'Not Appropriate'" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/school-grands-slave-book-inappropriate_n_6306e160e4b052615d77be93

#GeorgeDawson #LifeIsSoGood

District That Named School After Black Author Rules Parts Of His Memoir 'Not Appropriate'

George Dawson's memoir details how he witnessed his best friend getting lynched after he was accused of raping a white woman, a crime Dawson said the friend didn’t commit.

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While researching my last post, I found CNN's report about the subject. It was disturbing that their story already had an error of fact in it by the time I'd finished reading the headline.

#CNN

Apr 16, 2023 at 8:43pmWeb