Month: April 2016

Sen. Dick Black calls Loudoun teacher ‘appalling’ for defending Pulitzer Prize-winning book | LoudounTimes.com

State Senator Emails AP English Teacher to Offer His Thoughts on Beloved (Too Many Breasts): “When Toni Morrison’s Beloved was published, in 1987, Margaret Atwood, writing in the New York Times Book Review called it a “triumph.” She wrote of the novel, which has come to be considered one of the most important of the contemporary era, “[Morrison’s prose is] by turns rich, graceful, eccentric, rough, lyrical, sinuous, colloquial and very much to the point.” A few weeks ago, writing in an email to an AP English teacher who is one of his constituents, Virginia State Senator Richard Black called Beloved “moral sewage.””

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