[LMB] Re: OT: Very small child book recommendations

[onyxhawke at onyxhawke.com]

"stuff" like that happens and people still wonder at my opinion of the human race. 



The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. H. L. Mencken  

-----Original Message-----
From: JENNIFER WALKER <jwlkr732 at sbcglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 07:54:56 
To:lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: [LMB] Re: OT: Very small child book recommendations

  >> _Nappy Hair_ --totally nonPC, but you know, I know white people with that
>> kind of hair, too. Plus the story is made to be chanted, clapped, and danced
>> to. (no, no, mustn't write the Hermione Granger version...)
>>

>I'm really curious how this is "totally nonPC."

>It's written by an African American about hair that many kids have on
>their head. How can this possibly be non-PC?

>widdy
   
  If I remember correctly from the controversy when it came out, the main objection was to the term "nappy".  It was considered by some to be an offensive descriptive word.  Then a teacher read it out loud to her class and got in trouble for it.  I was a children's librarian at the time and remember there was a huge deal made out of it.
   
  jwalker
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