Brickbat: Reading Is Fundamental
Staff at the Danville Correctional Center in Illinois have removed more than 200 books from the library, most of them dealing with race, including works by Booker T. Washington, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Cornel West. Outgoing Illinois Department of Corrections director John Baldwin says he was told by the warden the books did not go through the review process to come into the prison but said he had no idea how staff identified which books had not been reviewed. NPR Illinois reports that emails show that at least some of the books were, in fact, approved by prison staff to come into the facility.
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The heady power of controlling absolutely other people’s lives. (‘Absolutely’ not to include other forms of prison contraband.)
If you’re erasing history, you have to erase the response to that history as well.
Staff pulled the books with pages stuck together by semen.
No one jacks off to Cornel West, unless one is really really into tweed jackets and graying afros.
Incomprehensible rambling can be quite a turn on.
NPR reporting cannot be trusted. They do not know what a baby is.
But did they demonetize anyone?
Did they burn the books?
Is that the same prison where 2 of the last 4 Illinois governors live?
I believe so; IL has two term governors: a term in office, followed by a term in prison.
Booker T. Washington’s “Up From Slavery” is perhaps one of the greatest books ever written. I myself received it as a graduation gift from high school. It’s a book about self reliance and dignity. It is exactly the sort of book that should be in every prison library.
I’ve read it as well. Self reliance and dignity, and people taking responsibility for themselves and their actions. I’m surprised there is not an all out ban on it everywhere.
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