When banning books you need to consider what could happen, and that includes diminishing a child’s perspective (“Menomonee Falls community group proposes policy to reinstate books,” June 9.)
Book banning is something that has been routinely happening since the Civil War. The first book to have a national ban was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book that is very pro-abolitionist and spoke up about some of the deepest slavery controversies.
Book banning has been happening more often. When kids don’t have exposure to different cultures and kinds of people they can become biased. When we don’t allow kids to be educated on these matters what kinds of kids are we creating? Are we creating the kinds of kids that treat each other fairly or are we creating the kind of people who will go out and discriminate against others?
If we continue to ban books — the books that cover issues on race, religion, discrimination and sexuality — we are helping to create a world that is built on discrimination.
Veronica Kleinfeldt, Milwaukee
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