Roberto Clemente book removed from Florida public schools pending review over discrim

I have the definitive book about Roberto Clemente by David Maraniss. Clemente felt that his enormous talent was underappreciated but the Hall of Fame felt differently.

He was a five tool player, and, I believe, the best player ever from Latin America, including the Baby Bull, Orlando Cepeda.

My wife and I were in P.R. when he died and we went to his home. We were invited into his beautiful home but we declined. We could see the awards he had earned through the front door.

Clemente is revered in P.R. for his baseball talents but also for his humanitarian efforts. He died far too soon.

Thanks to DeSantis and RW bigotry, most school kids in Florida won’t have access to his book.
 
The book, “Roberto Clemente” by David Maraniss has not been banned, anywhere.

Books for children must be screened carefully.

Books depicting perversion and revision of history are not acceptable for children.

Pornographic pictures of children are banned from books and computers and rightfully so.

Why does this even have to be stated?
 
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The book, “Roberto Clemente” by David Maraniss has not been banned, anywhere.

Books for children must be screened carefully.

Books depicting perversion and revision of history are not acceptable for children.

Why does this even have to be stated?
^^^
Captain Obvious gnores the fact Clemente’s book has been banned in Florida schools due to DeSantis bigotry.

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/10/florida-school-district-book-roberto-clemente-crt
Details: Duval County Public Schools, which includes Jacksonville, Florida, announced late last month that it was "taking further steps to comply with Florida laws on library books."

  • Those steps include a "formal review of classroom libraries," the district said. The 2005 illustrated children's book on Clemente is one of those under review.
  • The district said state officials trained district staff on how to use a "certified media specialist" to approve books.

Catch up fast: Florida is one of 19 states that have passed laws or used executive orders to limit the teaching of what it calls "divisive concepts" or critical race theory since 2021, according to data from the National Conference of State Legislatures, the American Instructional Resources Survey and an Axios analysis of recent stories.
 
Children must be protected from those who deal in child pornography and revisionists of history.

Every state should have these laws to protect children.
 
The book is available to anyone....not banned... Why does anyone has a problem with classroom book review committees? It they're age group appropriate, the books are approved....
Dear Clueless; it’s been banned in Florida schools. Most kids don’t have the financial assets to plunk down $20 for a book at Barnes & Nobles. Most kids don’t have easy access to the city library. Their primary access to reading material is the school library.

If you were really a school teacher, especially a Special Ed teacher, then you’d know this is true and why your post is a distortion of the truth.
 
The book, “Roberto Clemente” by David Maraniss has not been banned, anywhere.

Books for children must be screened carefully.

Books depicting perversion and revision of history are not acceptable for children.

Pornographic pictures of children are banned from books and computers and rightfully so.

Why does this even have to be stated?
The book is available to anyone....not banned... Why does anyone has a problem with a classroom book review committees? It they're age group appropriate, the books are approved....
 
The restrictions have forced schools to remove conventional books on civil rights, even if they have nothing to do with graduate-level critical race theory conceptions.

Apparently just learning about the civil rights movement in the U.S. is triggering to the snowflakes of Florida.
 
The book is available to anyone....not banned... Why does anyone has a problem with a classroom book review committees? It they're age group appropriate, the books are approved....

Indeed.

There is a group of deviants who are trying to brainwash six year old children to believe that perversion and deviancy are “normal.”

They are not normal and never will be.

Good for DeSantis for protecting children from these deviants.
 
So I wouldn't be allow to give a talk to my grands school about my experiences with racism and antisemitism?

Not if there are any white kids in their class. I suppose learning about the Holocaust is still okay because we can blame that on some ppl in another country. As long as there's no mention made, of course, of how the rest of the world looked the other way. :rolleyes:
 
How a subject is taught is the issue.

Separating six year olds by “oppressor” and “oppressed” is not appropriate.

Revising history at any level is not appropriate.

The Civil Rights Movement and the Holocaust are covered in high school history at most schools.
 
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How a subject is taught is the issue.

Separating six year olds by “oppressor” and “oppressed” is not appropriate.

Revising history at any level is not appropriate.

The Civil Rights movement is covered in high school history at most schools.
Exactly...and the same thing goes for screening classroom volunteers and assembly speakers and content...it's just in the best interests of all the students....
 
The First Amendment has exceptions, five or six.

Child pornography and slander and libel are not protected.
 
Apparently just learning about the civil rights movement in the U.S. is triggering to the snowflakes of Florida.
They’re very sensitive and run from learning about bad things done in the past….unless it was done to them, then they are okay with it.
 
They’re very sensitive and run from learning about bad things done in the past….unless it was done to them, then they are okay with it.

Bet their version of the causes of the Civil War is somewhat different than the reality, eh? On another thread, the racist Stone is busy defending American slavery by insisting that it's all the fault of African tribesmen selling off other African tribesmen to the slavers. Seriously, this fact (that we all learned decades ago) negates our role in the abhorrent slave trade. :rolleyes:
 
Bet their version of the causes of the Civil War is somewhat different than the reality, eh? On another thread, the racist Stone is busy defending American slavery by insisting that it's all the fault of African tribesmen selling off other African tribesmen to the slavers. Seriously, this fact (that we all learned decades ago) negates our role in the abhorrent slave trade. :rolleyes:

Fatboy believes two wrongs make a right when a Euro-American does it.
 
The First Amendment has exceptions, five or six.

Child pornography and slander and libel are not protected.

Which of course is why you Worshippers of Ignorance are trying to equate a kid's book about a non-white baseball player with fictional how-to sex manuals for tots, something that exists only in your diseased minds. :rofl2:
 
Which of course is why you Worshippers of Ignorance are trying to equate a kid's book about a non-white baseball player with fictional how-to sex manuals for tots, something that exists only in your diseased minds. :rofl2:

Soon-to-be-banned in Florida: Every news article that said “Roberto Clemente has two balls on him”.
 
Soon-to-be-banned in Florida: Every news article that said “Roberto Clemente has two balls on him”.

:laugh: No kidding.

I wonder if the "media specialists" are sworn to secrecy and unable to state which books are being banned? Remember how DeSatan sent the cops to raid the home of FL state data scientist Rebekah Jones for daring to publicize the fact that they were not reporting COVID cases and deaths accurately? Librarians in FL can look forward to SWAT raids for revealing banned book lists, wait for it.
 
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