More than a thousand book titles, most addressing racism and LGBTQ issues, have been banned from U.S. classrooms and school libraries in the last nine months.
By Sharon Bernstein
PEN compiled a database of banned books that includes the first novel by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison and a memoir by actor and activist George Takei about being sent to an internment camp in California as a Japanese-American child during World War Two. "What is happening in this country in terms of banning books in schools is unparalleled in its frequency, intensity, and success," he said.
"Learn to tolerate the speech you abhor as well as the speech you agree with," Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat, said, imploring conservatives as well as liberals.Raskin cited criticism from the left seeking to remove the Mark Twain classic "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" because it uses a racial slur even though its overall theme is opposed to racism and slavery.
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