Book Banning, lets talk about it.
Derryl Glaze • May 12, 2023
Banning books has become a regular occurrence as of late.
- From July 2021 to June 2022, PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans
lists 2,532 instances of individual books being banned, affecting
1,648 unique book titles.
- The 1,648 titles are by 1,261 different authors, 290 illustrators, and 18 translators, impacting the literary, scholarly, and creative work of 1,553 people altogether.
Banning books has become a regular occurrence as of late. Oddly enough 18 states have no recorded instances of book banning, with bans occurring in 32 states, affecting 138 school districts. These districts represent 5,049 schools with a combined enrollment of nearly 4 million students. The top states with the estimated books banned are…
Texas: 751-1000
Florida: 500-750
Tennessee: 251-500
Pennsylvania: 251-500
What is the real purpose of banning books? Is it so our children don’t see things that are not personally vetted? What we’re actually doing is taking knowledge away from our youth who are desperately in need of it. We’re also not allowing them to develop their own perspectives. The folly of it all is if you have a computer, a cell phone, or even a friend, you can find the same book, with the same information, distributing the same knowledge that someone else decided you couldn’t have.
Books about the LGBTQ+ community, minorities, transgender, the civil war, slavery or just marginalized communities are the primarily targets. Please note, this is not an article about politics, but the trend is this happens more frequently in districts filled with conservative lawmakers. This form of personal censorship not only affects your family, but also affects everyone else’s…
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