Discussion: Publisher Pulls 'A Birthday Cake For George Washington' After It Depicted Happy Slaves

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By God, when Trump is President we’ll all say “Merry Christmas!” and “Happy Slaves!” and we’ll like it! This PC crap has to stop! Grrrr!!!

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Just a slight miscalculation on the author’s part.

Next book, a charming tale about the Auschwitz orchestra serenading the camp commandant.

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I wonder if this is one of those textbooks that’s published initially in Texas, which then for some godforsaken reason means it’s automatically picked up by the rest of the country.

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The characters on the cover look like chefs in Paula Dean’s kitchen.

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Publishing houses no longer have editors who can prevent something from being published in the first place?

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I was one of the people who signed the petition to have this crap pulled off the shelves. I think it’s just horrendous that this stuff can go through several layers of approval before it actually gets to the printing press.

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That was my first thought. I betcha it was.

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Trump and Paul will both issue angry tweets momentarily.

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They laid off all of them.

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Very poor judgment all down the line. And this is Scholastic, a giant in the industry. They have the exclusive U.S. rights to Harry Potter books, for Christ’s sake.

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If you ever get a chance, take a tour of the Virginia home of Mary Washington, the mother of George Washington. The tour guides never use the term “slaves” only “help.” The inability to be truthful is highly illustrative of the degree to which this country remains unable to deal with its slavery history.

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maybe if we elect trump, we could get him to have a huge, beautiful wall built between us and texas. of course, we know who he would make pay for the wall. looking for a trump upside.

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In related news, Scholastic has decided to decline the submitted manuscript entitled “Dick and Jane visit Belsen”

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Only cluelessly white ones, apparently.

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Near freedom? I guess you are one of those who says “half pregnant”

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Well, certainly illustrative of Virginia’s inability to come to grips Jefferson and Washington’s slaveowning history, anyway.

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Oh c’mon, there’s a ray of sunshine and a measure of mirth inside of every bad situation.

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Scholastic plans to re-issue the book once they change the Cook’s color to White and issue him an AR-15.

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They could’ve just changed the title to 'White Privilege"

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