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I don't think it's that bizarre when you think about it, shallow and silly reasoning for sure but it's not that weird nor does it seem to be some racist conspir
by philippejara 4y ago
I don't think it's that bizarre when you think about it, shallow and silly reasoning for sure but it's not that weird nor does it seem to be some racist conspiracy or whatever.
Talking about texas
Is it really surprising US prisons are going to ban books written by prison abolitionists? Not sure i'd even chalk it up to that to be honest.
Unless we know how books are added to the banned list not sure there's much to discuss, for example you'd think the malcolm X books would be banned, but they aren't(although there is one nation of islam book banned). If you need to bring the book in it wouldn't be very surprising to me that maybe nobody donated a mein kampf to the prison.
From a quick look[0] it seems like there are 38 books banned for racial things in Texas, and those are the titles:
BEST OF JOE R. LANSDALE, THE
BLACK KLANSMAN (BLACKKKLASMAN)
BLACK MANS BIBLE
BLACK MESSIAH MURDERS, THE
BLACK SUN
BRING THE WAR HOME
EVERYTHING YOU LOVE WILL BURN
FROM NIGGAS TO GODS PART ONE
FROM NIGGAS TO GODS V2 ESCAPING NIGGATIVITY &
GREEN RIVER RISING
HEBREWS TO NEGROES 2 V1 WAKE UP BLACK AMERICA
HUNTER
I HAD A HAMMER
INTO THEIR OWN HANDS
JEWS SELLLING BLACKS
KU KLUX TERROR
LEGACY OF VIOLENCE LYNCH MOB AND EXECUTIONS IN
MAKING OF A SLAVE, THE
MURDER IN PLAIN ENGLISH
MY MOTHER THE CHEERLEADER
NATURE'S ETERNAL RELIGION
ON LYNCHINGS
OUTDATED ADVERTISING
PRISON GUARD'S DAUGHTER, THE
REGGIN: AMERICA IN A MIRROR
ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY
SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL
SON OF MR. SULEMAN, THE
TAKE ME TO THE BRIDGE
UN-CIVIL WAR BLACKS VS NIGGAS
WATERMELONS, NOOSES & STRAIGHT RAZORS
WERENIGRO, THE
WHITE HOODS: CANADA'S KU KLUX KLAN
WHITE MAN'S BIBLE, THE
WHITER RACISM
WILLIE LYNCH LETTER & THE MAKING OF A SLAVE
WILLIE LYNCH LETTER AND THE MAKING OF A SLAVE
WOLF WHISTLE
What does become apparent is that most of these that are deemed racial deal with black people as protagonists, and while that is a problem knowing the process how they came to be there is pretty important to if anything be able to fix it. If you're gonna ban for this kind of content all should be banned equally, black sun seems to be a neo-nazi book of some sort so at least there's that.
[0]:https://observablehq.com/@themarshallproject/prison-banned-books https://observablehq.com/@themarshallproject/prison-banned-b...
- philippejara 4y agoSomehow I missed a paragraph from the article and yeah, the books seem to be mostly evaluated as they come into the jail.
- vorpalhex 4y agoI think you missed that a large part of that list are anti-semitic books.