Foolishness from some people

I don't usually enjoy click baiting, but while thinking and writing goes hand in hand, I saw it...this mental note to myself I am realizing it now. Apparently some school in Virginia just removed a book that I apparently loved as a teenager, "To Kill a Mockingbird," by Harper Lee, I was fifteen when this book come into my hands, and I was actually amazed at such a strange work at first. I was interested in the wording and the story and the whole thing that happened in such a small southern town.

Then to learn that a school removed it due to what they consider racism...what is this world coming to? I am staring at the articles coming up and just start wondering why are all these people  getting offended? I am just wondering because that book was actually required reading in my high school English class, and so was the Crucible, and many other works that could be considered offensive to some people.

Much of my writing is inspired from older works and seeing such a work being put under because some parents are getting overly offended. The story is not about racism at all, its about putting aside race to understand that justice is more important, that innocence is what shinning through regardless of race.

The fact many young readers won't be influenced by the great writing of Harper or even Mark Twain is shocking to me, that means a great deal will be lost to them. Many great writers outside the modern are amazing to read.

Here I am rattling off how much work I have gotten into with my own, and still pay my respects to the writers who have come before me. It makes me sad to see such amazing intellectualism suddenly being considered so horribly wrong. I would feel worse if it was Bram Stokers, Frank Herbert, and many other greats are suddenly removed from schools for one thing or another that would rob someone of great literature.

Truthfully, my entire world would have crashed if it happened when I was a teenager, just the mere thought of no books or being discouraged to read such literary works. Watching this world turn upside down is just not worth it to me, I want to work my four years of literary works and make a difference to at least a few great kids out there.