Response to Lemar. Readin' the Rainbow Babay!

I agree with Lemar about how we cannot just get rid of the standard “great books” as Giroux seems to imply. As much as the books may not offer much diversity that doesn’t lessen how well they were written or how good and beneficial their content is. What we must do is offer more “great books” from “great writers” with “great diversity”. Just as Lemar was quick to point out, there is no way to just get rid of literature that has influenced a culture for hundreds of years, this is unachievable. However, with this said I do agree that we must implement diversified texts into what’s read in the classroom for diversity too is a huge part of our culture and absolutely essential to who are as a nation.
One of the things that did kind of concern me about Giroux was how political his work seemed. I understand he wanted kids to be socially and politically active but he seemed like he had some political agenda. He just use terms and phrases that seemed like words you would say to soldiers, as if he was rallying the troops, such as, “fight for conditions”, “moral courage”, “engage”, “interrogate” and “political basis”. It just seemed to me like a he had a hidden agenda. I don’t know. What do you guys think???