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Banned BooksA southwestern Nova Scotia school board is struggling with a call to remove from classrooms three books that deal with racial prejudice, including the widely acclaimed classic To Kill a Mockingbird.Several black teachers and parents say that the book, by Harper Lee, and two others -- In the Heat of the Night by John Ball and Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker -- should not be used because they repeatedly use the derogatory term nigger. They say its use is demeaning to black students and singles them out for ridicule from white students. Diese Meldung wäre nicht halb so ironisch, wenn ich mich nicht daran erinnern würde, dass "To Kill a Mockingbird" als Lektüre für die gesamte Stadt Chicago vorgeschlagen wurde...