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2022-01-02T22:06:40.354Z


In today's America, the very fact that a white woman wrote about a black man's life is racism. In a New York Times poll, he was voted the best book written in the last 125 years. The play based on it managed, unlike many other productions, to overcome the corona crisis that hit theater in the world in general and New York in particular, and continue to be one of the most successful on Broadway. Generations of children in the U.S. have grown up on it. And yet, despite its power and strength


In a New York Times poll, he was voted the best book written in the last 125 years.

The play based on it managed, unlike many other productions, to overcome the corona crisis that hit theater in the world in general and New York in particular, and continue to be one of the most successful on Broadway.

Generations of children in the U.S. have grown up on it. And yet, despite its power and strength and the statement that lies within it, there are those who call for stopping teaching Harper Lee's book "Do Not Touch the Nightingale," and there are even those who think it should be stopped.

The plot actually fits very well with the spirit of the time: Tom Robinson is a black man accused of raping a young white woman.

The one who is being asked to defend him is a white lawyer named Atticus Finch, who has two children.

Finch fights for him in a way that evokes respect and appreciation, while the entire racist justice system and the town's black haters see Robinson as an immediate culprit.

While Finch seeks justice so he can look into his children's eyes and continue to see himself as deserving of the title of lawyer, the entire system wants to see Robinson bleed.

Harper Lee was born in Alabama, and General Robert Lee, who was commander of the Southern Army in the Civil War, is a relative of hers.

And the fact that she is a white woman, a descendant of a racist family, is enough to accuse her of racism.

In 1961 she won a Pulitzer for this book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but in the America of 2022 it is simply not enough.

In today's America, the very fact that a white woman wrote about a black man's life is racism.

"This is a book about the white and moral man, about white courage and not about black justice," those who want to disqualify him claim.

In the palm of your hand there are those who dismiss a significant literary work just because it does not tell exactly the story he wants to hear and tell.

Why open something up for class discussion if you can just disqualify it and that's it?

And as the system becomes over-liberal there is an immediate backlash: Eight U.S. states today have laws on how racism and sexual discrimination should be taught and should be taught. Teachers in states like Texas and Tennessee find themselves afraid to say anything about institutional racism or talk about the George Floyd case. In a current and historical context, the censorship exercised on both sides of the political barricade makes the discussion shallow, superficial and empty of content.

An interesting class discussion is one that has conflict.

An academic debate is one in which emotions are involved.

You can not constantly be afraid and walk between the drops and expect that this is what will expand your mind.

Politics and politicians are slowly making the American education system boring, predictable and unchallenging.

In English, the book is called "Kill Zamir" and that's exactly what they do - shut him up until he suffocates.

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Source: israelhayom

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