L. Frank Baum's family offers public apology for pro-genocide editorials.

Kind of hard to imagine (Right?  Or am I the only person on the planet who DIDN'T know about this?), but here they are.  (via Bookslut)

Comments

[Christina]

I wonder why his family is apologizing (and why now?). It seems so well-intentioned and yet so futile . . .

[Kelly]

Nope. You're not alone. I didn't know either. But, then again, I'm not an Oz fan. Didn't like the books or the movie :)

[nrkii]

Today's posts were the first I heard of this as well.

In reading his editorials, it just seems so disheartening. As if he's saying, "we've already done every atrocious thing we could to these people, we better just finish them off." I don't know what to make of it.

[Carl V.]

Yikes! That is said. Hopefully he was in Oz when he said this...would hate to think he actually meant these words.

[iliana]

I heard about this on NPR last week and I also had no idea. I'm with Christina, why are they doing an apology now?

[Leila]

No idea. It seemed strange to me, too.