By:
Richard Wright
Grade Level:
CENSORSHIP. The word evokes the shouting down of speakers whose ideas are somehow
ideologically incorrect, the destruction of printing presses, the spectacle of parents angry that
school texts contain language and ideas pernicious to underaged Dick and Jane (which they
already think of as ancient), bans on the exhibition of Mapplethorpe photographs, the Inquisition,
special markings for motion pictures and rap compact discs, and the pyramid of books aflame.
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