{"id":609,"date":"2008-03-06T09:42:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T16:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2008-03-06T18:11:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T01:11:29","slug":"another-book-club-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Another book club selection"},"content":{"rendered":"

In November 2007, Keith Sampson<\/a> who is a maintanence man and student at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis was reading a book during his break. A coworker who was black said she was offended by the book.<\/p>\n

Sampson’s shop steward later told him the book was like bringing pornography to work. The university’s Affirmative Action Office “investigated” Sampson and wrote him a letter saying that he “demonstrated disdain and insensitivity to [his] coworkers” and ordered him not to read the book in their presence. <\/p>\n

So what is this racially offensive book that is so inflammatory as to be considered contraband at an institution of “higher” learning? Well that would be Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan<\/em> by Todd Tucker. <\/p>\n

The problem that IUPUI has is that the book is not advocating support of the KKK. It describes events that occured in May 1924 where Notre Dame students got into a street fight with the KKK. Apparently IUPUI doesn’t understand that the KKK is religiously biggotted as well as racially biggotted. And that a book that documents a defeat of the KKK is not a book advocating KKK positions. Idiots. <\/p>\n

So with great enthusiasm I have selected my next pick for Jason’s Super-Fantastic Bookclub!<\/em>TM<\/sup>. Go pick up Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan<\/em> and read it. You’ll be a rebel because it turns out that it is a banned book by at least one university. <\/p>\n

Update:
\nI just searched IUPUI’s library catalog. Tucker’s book is part of the university collection. Currently it is checked out until 3\/31\/08. Makes me worry for that patron. He or she may be next in line for a harrassment investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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