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Satire is Impossible Under Fascism


George Dawson was an enslaved black man living in Texas. For most of his life he could neither read nor write. In 1898 he learned to do both and wrote a book about his experiences as a slave.


He became something of a celebrity even in Texas even in those segregated days and eventually people in his hometown got around to naming a middle school after him.

This week, that middle school banned the book George Dawson wrote from the school library because it dealt with slavery, segregation and Jim Crow-ism- -all subjects the school board felt were inappropriate for 7th and 8th-graders.


You can't make this stuff up.


God help us.

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