The community is invited to join in on the fun on Independence Day, Tuesday, July 4, for Kerrville’s 4th on the River music festival in Louise Hays Park.
jewish mice, not, not see cats, polish pigs, french dogs, american dogs, a representation of the common racist nazi propaganda that portrayed jewish people as rats or vermin or some human. through the animal imagery, the animal imagery doesn t do much to light in the heaviness of this book but the black and white drawings especially of the mines masterfully illustrate anguish and love and fear and brutality. the reader is not just hearing about the depravity of the holocaust. they are seeing it. maus has faced calls to ban it, both in the u.s. and overseas. last year, in late january, the mcmahon county school board in tennessee voted unanimously to remove maus from its eighth grade curriculum. the 10% school board cited to curse words, one instance of nudity, and discomfort with a general gruesome-ness of genocide. quote, being in the schools, educators and stuff we don t need to enable to promote this stuff. it shows people hanging. it shows them killing kids.