Randolph County, N.C., apparently has decided to declare itself the nation’s illiteracy capital.
In response to a barely literate complaint from one Kimiyutta Parson, mother of an eleventh-grader in the Randolph County schools, the district has voted 5-2 not only to remove Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man from its summer-reading curriculum but to ban the book altogether, removing it from the libraries. Gary Mason, one of the geniuses who voted for banning the book, protested: “I didn’t find any literary value.” Well, now that Gary Mason of Randolph County, N.C., has weighed in — case closed.
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