IDEAS THAT MAY SHAPE A SUPREME COURT CANDIDATE!

IDEAS THAT MAY SHAPE A SUPREME COURT CANDIDATE!

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Preface:

    The person on the Left will praise the following article; the person on the right will question it.

'Little House Has Been Condemned'

By Michael Taube in the "Wall Street Journal" July 5, 2018

    "Laura Ingalls Wilder is persona non grata at the American Library Association. The board of the Association for Library Service to Children, an ALA division, voted 12-0 last month to remain it Laura Ingalls Wilder Award as Children's Literature Legacy Award. (12 elites for transforming of America)

 

    "Wilder's legacy, as represented by her body of work, includes expressions of stereotypical of attitudes inconsistent with ALSC's core values of inclusiveness , integrity and respect, and responsiveness," the association announced in a press release.

 

    Wilder, best known for her 1935 novel, "Little House on the Prairie," published nine books in all about her pioneer family's settlement  in the Midwest and West. Her endearing stories were based on the importance of faith, family and farming. There were moments of great triumph, as well as periods of hardship, tragedy and illness where she and her family relied on their wits and skills to survive.

 

    The ALSC had fretted about Wilder's "complex" legacy and the "anti-Native and anti-Black sentiments" in her work - a claim not without an underpinning if fact.  Characters in "Little House on the Prairie" say "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" three times . The book's original first chapter also included this description of a place: "There were no people. Only Indians lived there." In later versions, the first sentence was changed to "no settlers."

 

    In later versions, the first sentence was changed to "no settlers." Wilder references to her white settler family's manifest destiny has also troubled the black community. Hardly anyone would defend these sentiments today, but people are products of their times. The Wilder Award was established in 1954, and it first recipient was Laura Ingalls Wilder herself. If we judge past luminaries by today's standards, who next to go.  (I don't like today's standards.)

 

    Each year the World Cultural Council bestows the Albert Einstein World Award of Science. Recently released personal diaries revealed that in 1920s Einstein described Chinese people as "industrious, filthy, obtuse" and resembling a "peculiar herd-like nation ... often more like automations than people.

    As for the American Library Association, since 1982 it has teemed with Annesty International to promote the annual Banned Books Week. An ALSC blog posted about it last September called the week a time to "celebrate intellectual freedom."  How does the ALSC square the spirit of Banned Books Week  with it scrubbing of Wilder's name. I tried to reach them but did not receive a response. 

 

George H. Kubeck

Preface: (cont'd)

2. The person on the right pursues the truth and common sense more often than a person on the left. 

 

3. Political correctness & Relativism are not part of the Constitution, but they are part of persons on left.

 

4. It is most likely that the 12 elites in the American Library Decision did not vote for Trump in 2016.

 

5. A person on the right is strongly influenced by Common Law and Natural Law. The person on the left is not persuaded  by these two laws.

 

6. A person on the right is a stickler to the original words of the Constitution; the person on the left wants to transform America via the Constitution into a pure secular contemporary America without God.