Nashville library offers 'I read banned books' library cards

“I want Nashvillians to know: Nashville Public Library will always respect your Freedom to Read — to independently determine what you read, and don’t read, and to exercise your role in determining what your children read,” library Director Kent Oliver said in a news release.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said this week he plans to sign a bill that would let a politically appointed panel remove books from public school libraries statewide through a new veto power over local school board decisions. The library's online catalog offers the American Library Association's top 25 books that have been banned or challenged for potential banning across the country recently, with electronic versions available for people who can't reach the physical library. The list includes the seven books in the Harry Potter series and “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The Nashville library card is free. The campaign ends May 26.

Book banning put Tennessee in the national spotlight recently after a rural school board in McMinn County voted unanimously to remove “Maus,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from the district’s curriculum. Meanwhile, in Williamson County, an affluent region just south of Nashville, school board members agreed to remove “Walk Two Moons” — a book that depicts an American Indian girl’s search for her mother — after parents complained about it.

I would be a little hesitant to sign up for one of these cards — is it a trick to identify educated people? These were some of the first people Nazis and Russians got rid of in the 1930s. I’m reading Maus right now and I am at a loss as to what the issue is. Holocaust denial?

Ah so this is all a scheme by Big Banned Book

It would be better if they gave away ethics, civics, and economic books.

Dang they lit the whole thing on fire?

The world always wants to fill full people's heads with trash and pure sh1t: just an observation.

Thank the lord for brave librarians.

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