How to Save Boys’ Heroes from the Woke Mob

When the woke mob was tearing down statues of George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and more in 2020, like so many, I was quickly appalled by the so-called online lessons his teachers were submitting his then eight-year-old intellect to, so I started searching for things for him to read.

I looked on my local library’s shelves for the good guys with six-shooters and laser guns I had grown up with, but could not find any such heroes in the youth section—a few of the titles were upstairs among the adult fiction.

He flipped through Harry Potter books, The Hunger Games stuff, and more and kept shaking his head.

“I don’t know dad, all these guys are dumb.”

“What do you mean?”

“There is always some girl who has to think for the boy,” he said. “That’s great for the girls, but I want a book where the boy hero is not stupid and, you know, where he does something cool.”

I started to say that Harry Potter was the main hero in those books, but before I spoke, I remembered that the girl characters in those stories actually do all the hard thinking. I then swallowed all the advice I’d give later on men and women and realized he was right to want heroes that resonate with him.

“What about the history stuff—all the cool heroes from history?” I asked as I walked to peruse the nonfiction in the youth section. He didn’t follow, but I took a look. There were a lot of books on those shelves, but it was all weak and politically correct—some of it was obnoxiously so.

I found him looking at comic books and asked what American heroes they had talked about in school.

“Paul Revere, but he just road some horse and shouted the ‘British are coming!’”

“Do you know that the British were marching out of Boston to take the peoples’ guns?” I asked.

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