Re: Nudity in books

[Kris Detmer <Kdetmer@COLUMBIA.K12.MO.US>]

Excellent response.  You put my thoughts into words and made me cheer out =
loud!

Kris

Kristina Detmer
Russell Boulevard Elementary
Columbia, Missouri, USA
kdetmer@columbia.k12.mo.us

>>> Jeff Kirkpatrick <jeffkirk@CONCENTRIC.NET> 01/28/02 02:55PM >>>
> If  the book is disruptive, I alter the picture. ...

    Wow.
    This is simply appalling; a betrayal of the library professional's
fundamental duty.
    There is a new, scholarly, book out, entitled _Nigger_.  Who among us =
is
justified in defacing and bastardizing its (dark-skinned) author's very
message by altering that word from its considered, candid use?
    Many glorious and unique works of art have been irreparably defaced, =
if
not destroyed, as a result of such irresponsible arrogance.
    Without apology, these are my simple observations.

JEK

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           When ground beef is achieved by simply processing an entire cow
through a meat grinder, those who imagine or define libraries, simply, as
rooms filled with books, may have a point.

Jeffrey E. Kirkpatrick
Advocate for libraries, education reform and humanity, in Aurora, CO
e-mail address: jeffkirk@concentric.net=20

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