{"id":3054,"date":"2006-03-16T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:20","slug":"mouse-that-roared-at-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3054","title":{"rendered":"The Mouse that ROARED. At seven."},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, now here’s a first. Okay, it’s not the first time an author’s work has been banned, but um, she’s …Seven. The New York Post<\/a> reports that home-schooled and multi-lingual Autum Ashante’s poem “White Nationalism Put U in Bondage” <\/em>was seen as a bit, um, excessive for the Westchester middle and high school in Peekskill, where she was asked to perform. She’s a poet, and has already shared the body of her work at the Manhattan African Burial Ground<\/a> and on television. But, there’s nowhere like school districts to help artist get their work banned, and it was the school performance that tore it.<\/p>\n

You’ll have to make the call as to whether Ms. Ashante is only parroting what she hears at home in her heavy and dramatic blank verse — how many times does a seven-year-old get to use the word ‘paradigm’ in her poetry? (How often do you?!) — and you may disagree with her only addressing certain students<\/a> with her call to action and pride – I know I do – but no matter what you think of her personally, it’s pretty ironic that it took a SCHOOL to shut her up, a school to make phone calls to parents, a school to apologize for the words of a 7-year-old, just in case her art offended. Open wide the halls of learning, that all may enter in… and maybe be offended and sue.<\/p>\n

Of course, now she’s got visits scheduled with Al Sharpton.<\/a> And may I just say that New York will now never hear the end of this? Be careful of mice with keyboards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, now here’s a first. Okay, it’s not the first time an author’s work has been banned, but um, she’s …Seven. The New York…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3482,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}