Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Recommended Reading

In Overland Park, Kansas, the Blue Valley board of Education is fighting tooth and nail to keep "Beloved" and other similar books in schools for their kids to read.

Below are two excerpts from the Blue Valley BOE recommended "Beloved":

WARNING:
Do not read any further if you do not like the Blue Valley BOE recommended Children's books reccommended for Kansas schools
Chapter 1:
"As she raised up from the heat she felt Paul D behind her and his hands on her breasts...desire in them had suddenly become enormous, greedy, more savage than when they were fifteen...Behind her, bending down, his body an arc of kindness, he held her breasts in the palms of his hands... What she knew was that the responsibility for her breasts, at last, was in somebody else's hands."

Chapter 10:
"Kneeling in the mist they waited for the whim of a guard, or two, or three. Or maybe all of them wanted it. Wanted it from one prisoner in particular or none--or all. Breakfast? Want some breakfast, n*gger? Yes sir. Hungry n*gger? Yes, sir. Here you go. Occasionally a kneeling man chose gunshot in his head as the price, maybe of taking a bit of foreskin with him to Jesus....Convinced he was next, Paul D retched...the engaged one decided to skip the new man for the time being lest his pants and shoes got soiled by n*gger puke."

Pretty juicy stuff, eh?

And that's just the milder stuff blogger will let through their decency filters.

Additional "recommended" reading can be found at Classkc.org if the mood for reading more kiddy stuff hits you.

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