Let's write about the illiterate people that want to ban books!

 Stand up to moral police, book banners

This echo opinion letter was published in TCPalm Stuart News in Florida:

Dear editor: I want to address the book bans happening in this state- Florida.

Parents essentially can now pull a book they think is questionable. Many have done so without even reading the book. How can you deem something inappropriate you yourself have not read?

The ignorance and audacity of these people is astounding. They are literally saying with their actions, "Well, I don't know what it's about, so it must be bad; let's ban it."Case in point, a young Black poet's work can no longer be read by younger students. Not one person who called for the ban has read it. They are banning things they know nothing about, perpetrating ignorant, baseless moral decisions for every Floridian.

I don't need moral police❗😠

This is America, not Afghanistan, where the moral police walk around punishing those they deem immoral.

Wake up, Florida! 

For every ignorant person that bans a book, there should be thousands of us fighting it. Personally, I encourage everyone to read the banned books. I've read almost all of them — some as a child, some as a teen and some as an adult.

My favorite book at 9 years old was "To Kill a Mockingbird" and I can honestly say it did not harm me in any way. All it did was help me be a more empathetic person to others. I don't see any of the myriad of ignorant reasons these people have come up with for banning books like this.

So Florida, stand up to ignorance. Read and share these books and use your voices and votes against this moral policing done by the extremists who haven't even read the books in question.

Reading kills no one; but ignorance does.

Adele Burich, Vero Beach