Plus-good that they fixed this:
Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic by most any measure—T.S. Eliot called it a masterpiece, and Ernest Hemingway pronounced it the source of “all modern American literature.” Yet, for decades, it has been disappearing from grade school curricula across the country, relegated to optional reading lists, or banned outright, appearing again and again on lists of the nation’s most challenged books, and all for its repeated use of a single, singularly offensive word: “nigger.”
Twain himself defined a “classic” as “a book which people praise and don’t read.” Rather than see Twain’s most important work succumb to that fate, Twain scholar Alan Gribben and NewSouth Books plan to release a version of Huckleberry Finn, in a single volume with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, that does away with the “n” word (as well as the “in” word, “Injun”) by replacing it with the word “slave.”…
No, no, NO!!! 10,000 times no! Do not do this – do not mutilate our literature because insane liberals have decided that a word is too offensive to be used. The word is offensive – its the first time its ever appeared on Blogs for Victory, and then only because of the context of this article. But it is part of our past – it is how things were done and said; and to take it out because it offends some bed-wetting liberal or “civil rights” con artist is just absurd.
If there’s a book which should ever be burned it would be a book which destroys the work of a great author. Leave the book as it is; let the kids read it and see how things were – engage in lively discussion with them about why Twain used those words…but don’t eliminate them. Don’t substitute a lie for truth.
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