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Removing references to historical racism is IMO a huge disservice to todays youth.
If you cover up the past history and attitudes\treatments of minorities, women etc. then how is todays youth to understand how some have a tougher family background etc. over the years and as a result are not as well positioned to succeed as others (in general).
In fact, I think scrubbing this can actually promote racism out of ignorance.
Even in her own lifetime Wilder apologised for her thoughtlessness and amended a line in Little House on the Prairie that said Kansas had ‘no people, only Indians’. It now reads, ‘no settlers, only Indians’.”
UGH. When are we going to allow the past to be recognized for what it was? It was not a very nice time in our history where non whites were mistreated, enslaved and murdered.
Instead of white washing history why can't we hold it up as a marvel at how far we have come?
UGH. When are we going to allow the past to be recognized for what it was? It was not a very nice time in our history where non whites were mistreated, enslaved and murdered.
Instead of white washing history why can't we hold it up as a marvel at how far we have come?
What is next banning Mark Twain?
Mark Twain has already been banned in many school districts and libraries.
UGH. When are we going to allow the past to be recognized for what it was? It was not a very nice time in our history where non whites were mistreated, enslaved and murdered.
Instead of white washing history why can't we hold it up as a marvel at how far we have come?
What is next banning Mark Twain?
Calm down, no one is banning anything. They are merely renaming an award to better reflect today's thinking.
And it's exactly a reflection of how far we've come, so it should make you happy.
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.
Rose Wilder Lane, Laura's daughter, went on to lead a very successful life after she dumped her husband. She was a writer. It's rumored that she helped her mother Laura with her books.
Rose was involved in politics and is one of the founders of the American Libertarian Movement.
In the late 1920s, Lane was reputed to be one of the highest-paid female writers in America...
her work regularly appeared in leading publications such as Harper's, Saturday Evening Post, Sunset, Good Housekeeping, and Ladies' Home Journal. Several of her short stories were nominated for O. Henry Prizes and a few novels became top sellers. Lane became the first biographer of Herbert Hoover,
Rose Wilder Lane, Laura's daughter, went on to lead a very successful life after she dumped her husband. She was a writer. It's rumored that she helped her mother Laura with her books. [/i]
It's not a rumor. She did quite extensive editing on Laura's manuscripts. Some people actually credit the books more to her than to her mother.
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