South Raleigh News

An Athens Drive High School student said that she was leaving school after being forced to read “pornographic incestual sexual content” in her Honors English class.

In a video posted to X by Libs of TikTok, Lorena Benson, a 15-year-old 10th grader at Athens Drive High School, tells the Wake County school board that the teacher of her Honors English class assigned the class a story to read independently. Benson cited a passage from the book that made her and her fellow classmates uncomfortable.

“It was not the summer you fell in love with your cousin Dozie because that happened a few summers before, when you both wiggled into the tiny space behind Grandmama’s garage and he tried to put what you both called his banana into what you both called your tomato but neither of you was sure which was the right hole,” Benson quoted from the book Tomorrow Is Too Far.

“This graphic incestual sexual language should not be taught in any class, much less an Honors English class,” Benson told the school board.

Benson connects this incident to her lessons in her Health for Living Honors class, where she learned about the developmental aspects of the teenage brain, emphasizing that teenagers are not fully developed and need to be mindful of the content they engage with. 

“I am a teenager; my brain is not fully developed and I should not have graphic incestual sexual content taught to me in my classes,” Benson said.

Feeling deeply bothered and disappointed, Benson says that she shared the uncomfortable experience and they agreed that she should leave Athens Drive High School.

The book Tomorrow Is Too Far, written by Nigerian “Marxist Feminist” author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is about a sister who accidentally causes her brother’s death. Adichie, whose real name is “Amanda” and who attended Eastern Connecticut State University with that name, made up and changed her name “Chimamanda” because it sounded more African.

In 2017, Adichie drew the ire of fellow communists when she said cross-dressing men pretending to be women are still men.

“I don’t think it’s a good thing to talk about women’s issues being exactly the same as (cross-dressing men) because I don’t think that’s true,” Adichie said.