School district removes 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from reading lists for the most alarming reason

To Kill a Mockingbird has a long history atop banned books lists, but here's a new reason: the 20th century classic about racism in small-town Alabama "makes people uncomfortable." 

The Biloxi School District in Mississippi removed the novel by Harper Lee from an eighth-grade reading list after receiving complaints about the book's language, the Biloxi Sun Herald reported. 

“There were complaints about it. There is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable, and we can teach the same lesson with other books," school board vice president Kenny Holloway told the paper. 

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