During Tuesday’s Broward School Board meeting, a parent read an explicit passage from the novel PUSH by Sapphire. In the novel, a daughter gives an explicit description of her sexual abuse at the hands of her father. The parent claimed the adult novel is available at the South Plantation High School library.
Shortly after the parent began reading, the audio from meeting’s livestream was cut off. The audio returned as soon as the next speaker was called to the podium.
It does not appear that Chairman Lori Alhadeff attempted to stop the parent. But, someone decided that the passage from PUSH should not go out over the District’s television and radio broadcasts.
If the words in PUSH are not suitable for the meeting, why is it available in local high schools?
Because, of course, we should only allow books for high school teens that sugar coat parental sexual abuse, he says facetiously.
If the words in PUSH are not suitable for the meeting, why is it available in local high schools?
Answer the question honestly. Even if you think it’s okay, what happened to democracy? MOST parents don’t want that smut in public school libraries. Are you trying to end democracy as we know it? At least wait until November so Trump can join you.
“MOST parents don’t want that smut in public school libraries” How good of you JJ to fully capitalize the word “MOST” just in case the reader is unaware of the magnitude of it..LOL. Per chance did you happen to run a nationwide poll to support your bold statement that MOST parents don’t want the novel PUSH in their public school libraries. Yeah, I didn’t think so. But, apparently you’d prefer to sweep the sexual abuse of a family member under the rug or maybe you have some “pretty” way of describing it so that it would pass your puritanical muster? Or maybe you are one of those that doesn’t believe that for years some priests and other religious “leaders” didn’t sexually abuse/rape children…or that even if they did we would all be better off sweeping that under the rug too? I suspect you were blessed by not being one who was similarly horrendously abused growing up because if you had been I equally suspect that you wouldn’t sugarcoat the passage that was read before the Board. If you don’t want to read a book or have a child of yours not read one, fine, but who died and made a person like you the arbiter of keeping everyone else from reading a book…including a teenager who sadly was horrifically the victim of child abuse? Also, one person’s smut might very well be someone else’s salvation. For instance, under your puritanical view of the world one might also validly argue that we need to remove all Bibles from public school shelves for the inappropriate/sexually explicit passages within it. Why? I’d submit the following passages, among a host of others, easily fail to pass your “smut test”…
If women dress themselves up to look attractive, with make-up and high heels, God is quite prepared to sexually molest them Himself, in the usual manner of patriarchal deities – (Isaiah 3:16-17).
16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
Deut. 25:11 When two men are fighting and the wife of one of them intervenes to drag her husband clear of his opponent, if she puts out her hand and catches hold of the man by his privates, you must cut off her hand and show her no mercy.
Kings 2:23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you bald head! Go up, you bald head!” So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
Deut. 23:1 No man whose testicles have been crushed or whose organ has been cut off may become a member of the Assembly of God.
Leviticus 24:16 Whoever utters the name of the Lord must be put to death. The whole community must stone him, whether alien or native. If he utters the name, he must be put to death.
Ezekiel 23:19 Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt. She lusted after their genitals – as large as those of donkeys, and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.
Go to it JJ, start removing all Bibles from our public school libraries as I am sure too that MOST parents don’t want such smut creeping into their “innocent” children’s lives. Nah, we can just leave them to search the internet, and AI in the near future, to satisfy their more prurient interests.
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