Class Canon and Cancel Culture - What books Belong In My Library?

 This was really hard for me and hard to get a grasp on everything they talked about. I had never heard of the #Metoo movement before I saw this. In the article “ Do works by men implicated in the mee too movement belong in the classroom”  they talk about how authors' works went down because of something they said or did. One that hit me was Mr. Alexie's abuses made his sales go down in his book “the absolute diary of a bardo time Indian”. This was a book I remember reading in 7th grade. It was really good and it was good for teaching teens the importance of family and struggle. I think there is a time when the author of the book and the book have to be separated when things get too serious. The article also talks about  “some argue that tossing out works by men accused of abuse creates an opportunity to break up “the old white guys” club that for too long defined schools reading lists”. I partly agree with this but I also don't. I think it is good to break up the old white guy's clubs but only to an extent. Because of everything that happened I can see why educators have worries about their curriculum about perspectives and censorship. When an author that is taught in school is supposed to be a learning experience and then something happens it might change the views of many people in the book. 
In the Youtube video, The problem with Cancel Culture with Ayishat Akanbi brought up some really good thoughts and points. “Our ideas can change quickly online”. This was interesting, the fact that what we say online may not be our actual view on somethings. It shows that ideas can change and one idea might be bad at first but then become good. Another thing she talked about is the importance of both mental health and physical health but then we discard people at the first sight of something we don't like. I feel this is very common, I sure pretty much have done this at some point. I would also say this could be the same as judging. Just because something does something bad doesn't make them bad. Ayishat made a good point on this as well. She said,” We should be more forgiving of people's mistakes, life's trial and error awareness is understanding how much you don't know”. I thought this video was very intriguing and helped me sort out some of my thoughts on this issue. 
The last thing I read was “how to make the most out of a diver classroom library”. This article talked about the best way to pick books for your library. They talked about the concept of mirror or window. I had never heard of that concept but it's good to keep in mind. A window is a concept that children can see the world outside the one they live in while a mirror book would be one where they can learn to be a “better” person. When I say better I mean that they can learn who they want to be and how they should develop as a person. Three books that I think would be in my library is Lord of the Flies by William Goulding, Kindred by Octavia Butler, and Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card. These books are all more for teens than little children. I read all of these in high school and they made an impact on me. Lord of the Flies is about a group of boys who got stuck on an island and have to find a way to survive. The book talks about the fight against evil vs humanity. When I first got the book  I didn't want to read it but then I liked it in the end. It's a short book and good for teens. Kindred is about slavery but the book is very interesting. It goes from the past to the present and switches. It tells the story of an older African American woman who tries to save this little boy from slavery. These books were confusing at first but were also very good. The last book I mentioned was ender's game. Ender's Game is a carefree book about a boy who plays games in space and finds out everything he did happen in real life.