Speak Your Mind

There is a controversy brewing over the book Speak by Laurie H. Anderson. This is a book published in 1999, which went on to win many awards, and also to be oft challenged. Currently a Professor at Missouri State is trying to have Speak taken off the High School reading list calling the rape scene in the book "soft pornography". I think Ms. Anderson sums it up best in a statement she made against censorship:

"But censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them."