I was shocked and annoyed when I learned recently that Maya Angelo “I know why the beloved bird sings”, according to the orders of the Minister of Defense Higseth HouseIt was withdrawn from the NIMITz library shelves on the campus of the American Maritime Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. As if the removal of this basic text of American literature was not terrible enough, in this.Dei cleansing“The employees also abandoned” the commemoration of the Holocaust “, by Janet Jacobs” and “Jack Johnson: Rebel Sojourner”, written by the Teresa Runstid.
Jacob’s book is explored as a framework in the greatest context of the Holocaust memory, and the text of Runstller highlights the black man’s struggles against Jim Crowe racist in the early twentieth century. In a college founded in the early nineteenth century, but she did not produce a black graduate until 1949, and a woman graduated until 1980, this text should be praised by students, and it is not frustrated.
When I was one of the few black students in Annapolis in the late 1970s, I and a group of classmates often discussed the books that we were reading outside the semester. Freedom to communicate with books such as “The original son” by Richard Wright, and “I know why the beloved bird sings” and “Manchild in the Land”. It was presented with our personal stories and their collective history, while increasing our official instructions, which confirmed the history and achievements of white men. These activities encouraged curiosity and emotional listening, and important skills for naval and navy officers in the future, such as learning military tactics and weapons. Current students at the Maritime Academy may not have such freedom.
Nearly four hundred books were cleared, prompting members of the Armed Services Committee in the House of Representatives to demand the navy, “stop removing books from the Library of the Service Academy.” Every American must submit the same request. Moreover, they should urge their Congress representatives to also demand the return of Higseth to mashed books to the library.
My alarm extends around cleansing the library to beyond attachment to the previous days from the unpleasant library visits. It appears to be another misleading effort to agree with the Executive Order 14151: ending Dei’s extremist and wasted government programs, preferring, the employees of the Academy canceled the talk about the guests invited, Ryan Holiday, after he refused their request not to mention the book in its observations. Employees in libraries in other military academies and hundreds of military installations may have to take similar measures to reduce freedom of expression. Moreover, Minister Higseth’s actions may encourage the other appointed allegiance to Trump to restrict what civilians may publish on web sites, include in internal documents, and a discussion with co -workers. NAAC correctly criticizes the ban on books as increasingly a tool for “leaders of anti -black policies who systematically calling intolerance and ignorance.” The banning of the most comprehensive books has disrupted our youth teaching. The Free Beember Advocacy Group Pen America has reported approximately 16,000 book prohibitions in public schools in our nation since 2021, and numbers “have not been seen since Red Scare McCarthy in the 1950s.”
There are libraries in service academies to help educate the next generation of military leaders. However, these libraries are operated in what the Ministry of Defense markets as colleges of liberal arts. While Trump administration officials have been criticizing peer institutions in academies to give lip service to the free flow of ideas and information, none of them was subject to such stark control – unprecedented.
One of the defense sites in the Ministry of Defense said that on his visit to the Maritime Academy, Beit Higseth said: “The Corps of our unexplained officers gives us an advantage over the authoritarian armies from top to bottom every day … Paying information and decision -making and their capabilities below.” However, if the Secretary believes sincerely with the power of non -automatic leadership, he must give his subordinates more length lines to determine what they should read themselves.
Several web sites offer lists of books banned by public officials in many states across the United States. In addition to asking our representatives to oppose the book of purification of books at the Maritime Academy, the public can act more. Buy banned books, share them with friends and colleagues, review them in the media. These are important actions in what is looking for a continuous battle against the increasing efforts in Draconian to suppress freedom of expression and individual selection.
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