School administrators in Biloxi, Mississippi announced late this week they’ll be pulling Harper Lee’s classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” from their required reading list because it “makes people uncomfortable.”
School board vice president Kenny Holloway said school officials decided to pull the novel from the district’s 8th grade curriculum after getting complaints from some local residents over the book’s allegedly offensive language.
To remind, the 1960 novel won a Pulitzer prize and addresses racial inequality in the Deep South as one of its main themes – and not by painting it in a positive light. One of the novel's primary characters, Atticus Finch, is revered to this day as one of fiction’s most prominent racial justice heroes.
Still, the P.C. Police – who have likely never read the novel themselves, given their clear misunderstanding of its entire point – have managed to exile a novel best known for promoting racial justice, all because it mentions the n-word.
Guess this would be a bad moment to remind social justice warriors about that time former President Obama hailed"To Kill a Mockingbird" as a "timeless novel" that "brought to life an unforgettable tale of courage and conviction, of doing what was right, no matter what the cost."
Guess that makes Obama a racist now, too. Awkward.