Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Richard Wright’s Black Boy, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, and Erin Gruwell’s The Freedom Writers Diary have been declared NOT obscene.
Earlier story here.
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06 March 2007
Obscenity ruling.
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Thank goodness someone was level headed about this. If they were deemed obscene, who knows where that would have led us?
Posted by: E_I | 06 March 2007 at 10:44 AM
This books sucks! why are we reading them? we have no lifes and we should all die. God u guys are gay homos
Posted by: Tits mcgey | 06 March 2007 at 01:36 PM