-
"special environment."
-
The special environment is a place of voluntary study;
-
it is a place where the Fourteenth Amendment cannot be suspended.
-
And as they say, sort of poetically,
-
students do not leave their rights at the school door.
-
And so school libraries can't be regulated in that way.
-
But these things come up over and over, and what's interesting about
-
that particular case is that the objection was that these books
-
were anti-American.
-
How far have we come since Black Boy had to be truncated?
-
Not that far, in certain sectors of the country,
-
in certain ways of thinking.