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access to a single book. now, they re targeting multiple titl titles. of the books challenged, 40% were in cases involving 100 or more books. the vast majority are written by or about the lgbtq community and people of color. surprise, surprise. those books include gender queer, a graphic novel about coming out as nonbinary, and the bluest eye , on the lived experience of black women and girls. with me now, debra stone. thank you so much for joining me and talking about this issue. i m a college professor at morgan state university. yes. i often talk to my students about what their access was to books in high school prior to coming to a university library. just for a purely educational standpoint, how dangerous is it that we re seeing these sort of organized attacks on books and libraries in and out of schools throughout the country? it s very dangerous.
society, people should be able to choose what they want if you want to have a drag queen story hour, you don t want to take your kid there, great, don t. but if i want to take my kid, that s fine. that s where we can live together republicans don t like that type of classical liberalism anymore because they realized the culture has moved on so now they need laws to put bans in place which obviously contradicts this notion of freedom. i think libertarianism and freedom are out of vogue in the republican party even if the rhetoric is still en vogue and the orwellian piece is they call it parental rights as you made a good point, i asked a lovely republican gentleman who was not a maga person, but what happens if a black parent says i want my kid to experience the bluest eye, as you said, a parent who has a gay child, i have a gay daughter, what if i want her to read the book, what if it makes her happy and included to read this book in school? they don t have an answer for that other t