american culture since the mayflower so the governor of plymouth william bradford charge that thomas morton had to compose sundry rhymes and verses some tending to listen to as miss morton was eventually banished by the puritan colony and for his actions at sixteen twenty eight really four hundred years later we're still holding on to those puritan beliefs that words can poison the soul that must be contained hidden or even destroyed and twenty six email is office for intellectual freedom found that over half of all books banned in us schools libraries and universities are by authors of color and contained ideas that are outside of the perceived mainstream and those brain twisting propaganda pieces threatening the minds of the nation use their books like the color purple by alice walker beloved by toni morrison the autobiography of malcolm x. and i know way that caged bird sings by maya angelou classics by some of the greatest american authors ever yet begun and in many modern public schools for fear it will offend or confuse parents and students as someone rushed the one said what is freed

assumed the things i that was thomas jefferson that really sort of set this in motion. i see that morton washington. jefferson has been on the conversation. he's taking notes in the cabinet meetings. i think one of the big distinctions between them, and this is what john ross is facing , you have a president and andrew jackson and a prevailing philosophy, and emergency philosophy with people like jackson that says it doesn't matter that the cherokees have made all the adjustments. the cherokee leadership deliberately and consciously presented themselves as a modernized indian nation. we have our own printing press, we done all these things. the jackson that does not matter because they are still indian. , the raciale question is impenetrable. still indian so get rid of them. washington knocks jefferson's enlightenment thinking. yes, there is no question they regard indians is inferior, but they are inferior because of environment and experience. when we look at them we see ourselves at a different time and age. up andwe can raise them with education and civilization, etc., indian people