yeahwho
01-06-2011, 09:35 PM
They've taken an American Masterpiece and rewritten the word nigger with slave.
from the NYTimes, 1/6/11 Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07huck.html)
A new effort to sanitize “Huckleberry Finn” comes from Alan Gribben, a professor of English at Auburn University, at Montgomery, Ala., who has produced a new edition of Twain’s novel that replaces the word “nigger” with “slave.” Nigger, which appears in the book more than 200 times, was a common racial epithet in the antebellum South, used by Twain as part of his characters’ vernacular speech and as a reflection of mid-19th-century social attitudes along the Mississippi River.
Wasn't Jim running away from slavery? What do ya think?
from the NYTimes, 1/6/11 Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07huck.html)
A new effort to sanitize “Huckleberry Finn” comes from Alan Gribben, a professor of English at Auburn University, at Montgomery, Ala., who has produced a new edition of Twain’s novel that replaces the word “nigger” with “slave.” Nigger, which appears in the book more than 200 times, was a common racial epithet in the antebellum South, used by Twain as part of his characters’ vernacular speech and as a reflection of mid-19th-century social attitudes along the Mississippi River.
Wasn't Jim running away from slavery? What do ya think?