Thursday, January 6, 2011

Should the N-word be edited or erased from the story, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?

I just heard that the word "nigger" that was used in the story over 219 times, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Samuel L. Clements, will be erased or edited. Me personally, I'm against erasing or editing the word, "nigger" simply because the majority is trying to make African Americans forget how they were treated, how they were negative stereotyped and were valued in the days of slavery. This story explains how children learn racism and negative stereotypes from adults. It also teaches how the majority's opinion about African Americans back in Clements' time. Back in those days, the words, nigger and slave both were completely different from the words human and person. People, this is just another way of the majority trying to "rewrite and change history" . The story, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", was another story about the truth of racism that made the majority look bad. As a matter of fact, the majority doesn't want anybody too watch, read, and learn anything that is going to make them (the majority) look like the enemy today.

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