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slappypan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 04:00 PM
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4. I used to design textbooks
I heard many horror stories about the Texas adoption board. They are very racist — once made us take out a picture from a literature anthology of a very highly regarded husband and wife team who write and illustrate children’s books, because they are an interracial couple. Also heard they would try to have poems by Langston Hughes and stories by Richard Wright removed from textbooks because "they were communists.”
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