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Currently reading Prairie Fires, the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Fantastic book that really delves into the history of the USA in the 1800s. Pa Ingalls possibly knew he was invading Indian country when he took his family to southern Kansas and built their little house there. They had to leave and went back to The Big Woods. Laura and Almanzo's daughter Rose is a trip. Rose and her husband were pretty much grifters. She divorced him. Unlike Laura's books and TV show, this book shows the poverty that Laura and her sisters grew up in.
Thank's for the info...I'm going to request that book at our local library.
I agree with you...Rose Wilder Lane was something else indeed. She absolutely despised FDR and his New Deal. She's considered one of the founders of the Libertarian Party. Her "adopted" grandson, Roger Lea McBride (who was her heir, as she had no children) ran for President in 1976 (Libertarian Party). He later wrote the "Rocky Ridge series about Rose. I've read them...they are a bit different from Laura's, but quite good. She spent some time with her Aunt Eliza Jane (Almanzo's sister) who was a trip in her own right. She was a member of the Socialist party in the early 1900's.
Wilder was born in 1867 and died in 1957. Her most famous novel, Little House on the Prairie (1935), has inspired almost as much disapproval as devotion. The novel has racist elements, and its portrayal of Native Americans has had consequences when read uncritically in schools. In the late 1990s, scholar Waziyatawin Angela Cavender Wilson approached the Yellow Medicine East School District after her daughter came home crying because of a line in the book, first attributed to Gen. Philip Sheridan but a common saying by that time: “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.”
Almost as much... maybe, if every postmodernist scholar's opinion counts as much as a million ordinary people who are fans.
I read them and loved them, too. It's possible to enjoy a piece of literature, or in this case, essentially a diary, without embracing all of the views expressed therein.
The books give an interesting perspective on what life was like then. I would allow my kids to read them, if I had kids. I would also want to talk to them about some of the sentiments they contain.
I think changing the name was the right thing to do. It's not a ban, it's not censorship. It's just making the award a little kinder.
It was common sense survival instinct without all the liberal noise we have to endure now.
Thank's for the info...I'm going to request that book at our local library.
I agree with you...Rose Wilder Lane was something else indeed. She absolutely despised FDR and his New Deal. She's considered one of the founders of the Libertarian Party. Her "adopted" grandson, Roger Lea McBride (who was her heir, as she had no children) ran for President in 1976 (Libertarian Party). He later wrote the "Rocky Ridge series about Rose. I've read them...they are a bit different from Laura's, but quite good. She spent some time with her Aunt Eliza Jane (Almanzo's sister) who was a trip in her own right. She was a member of the Socialist party in the early 1900's.
I'm halfway through the book. Laura and Rose had a difficult relationship. I think Rose feared poverty so much. She, at least when she was married to her husband, was not a nice person. They were grifters, and proud of it. She actually wrote letters about how they made funny money, at the same time never seemed to have any. It's weird. Eliza Jane is in the book, as well.
I read them and loved them, too. It's possible to enjoy a piece of literature, or in this case, essentially a diary, without embracing all of the views expressed therein.
Seems too obvious to even need saying.
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I think changing the name was the right thing to do. It's not a ban, it's not censorship. It's just making the award a little kinder.
It's just making the award generic and meaningless. It's a coven of post modernist harpies getting a shot in at a beloved piece of Americana.
These things happen because leftist vermin always have to find a new cause to distract from the fact that certain groups chronically underperform in this country despite every advantage. We have free education, free Obamacare if needed, free housing and food subsidy if needed, wild opportunity only dreamed of in other nations, rule of law, and both governmental and private industry programs to address past injustice.
And yet certain people do not want to work to make their lives better. They stay perpeturally fixed in last place.
Liberals cannot admit as much, so it becomes Laura Ingalls-Wilder's fault, or Huck Finn's fault, or a team logo's fault, or the fault of some statues in the park that nobody bothered about for decades.
It is all a diversion, and if they really loved minorities, they would tell them to pay attention in school, do not commit crimes. wait until marraige to have children, lay off the drugs and booze, speak English fluently and correctly, pull up the pants, treat others with a respectful attitude, forget excessive claims of grievance and entitlement, and get a job.
But nope. It is much easier to make some hollow gesture regarding the name of someone dead for decades.
Exactly who feels like they benefit from these ridiculous actions?
Probably Democrats who want to hide their racist past. I’d bet some Germans wouldn’t mind if all references to Nazi anti-Semitism were removed from books of literature and history.
Since we need to judge all historical figures by our current standards, none of them will make it through. So, I for one think we should remove all references to history and historical figures and let's just do away with history, that way we won't have to be bothered!
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