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StumbleKKSS discovered 2 months ago- From the page: "EVERY semester, African-American students somewhere are forced to endure the painful experience of hearing the N-word repeated dozens of times by classmates and, sometimes, teachers. The moment comes during assigned reading and class discussions of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a novel set in the pre-Civil War-era about a young boy and a runaway slave. Schools around the country have grappled with the question of banning the book. Some have banned it."
- tiggertekah rated 2 months ago
- Very good argument against banning books
- IriniAlana rated 2 months ago
- From the page: "Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the nom de plume Mark Twain, helped expose slavery as a racist and dehumanizing system and an undeniable part of America's past. Liberal use of a racial epithet describing blacks says much about the human condition in Twain's time. Avoidance isn't the answer. Confronting racially offensive terms with sophisticated educational approaches offers a better choice. In addition, responsible teaching ought to include preparing students to read "Huckleberry Finn." Discussions about the racist times Twain's characters lived in ought to coincide with introductions to the author's African-American contemporaries -- writers such as Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar."
- lazyass rated 2 months ago
- From the page: "Such ugliness notwithstanding, the book should not be banned. To do so would take us down a path littered with book bannings, from "The Grapes of Wrath" in an Iowa school district to "Brave New World" in a district in Missouri. Issaquah has already removed "The Catcher in the Rye" from its optional reading list, citing vulgarity and sexual content. Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the nom de plume Mark Twain, helped expose slavery as a racist and dehumanizing system and an undeniable part of America's past. Liberal use of a racial epithet describing blacks says much about the human condition in Twain's time. Avoidance isn't the answer. Confronting racially offensive terms with sophisticated educational approaches offers a better choice."
- nihtwael rated 2 months ago
- Oh, what a painful experience. Listening to rap and hip hop must be absolute torture, then. No? Oh, I see. Hearing the word nigger in a great work of literature is painful, but hearing it repeatedly in every song on a rap CD by some low life wif a gold grille keepin' it real yo is not. Whatever.
And for the ignorant: the word niggardly is of Scandanavian origin and bears no relationship whatsoever to the word nigger. - Oh, what a painful experience. Listening to rap and hip hop must be absolute torture, then. No? Oh, I see. Hearing the word nigger in a great work of literature is painful, but hearing it repeatedly in every song on a rap CD by some low life wif a gold grille keepin' it real yo is not. Whatever.
- blacsoc rated 2 months ago
- From the page: "amuel Clemens, who wrote under the nom de plume Mark Twain, helped expose slavery as a racist and dehumanizing system and an undeniable part of America's past. Liberal use of a racial epithet describing blacks says much about the human condition in Twain's time. Avoidance isn't the answer. Confronting racially offensive terms with sophisticated educational approaches offers a better choice. In addition, responsible teaching ought to include preparing students to read "Huckleberry Finn." Discussions about the racist times Twain's characters lived in ought to coincide with introductions to the author's African-American contemporaries â€" writers such as Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar."
- annex10 rated 2 months ago
- That's funny, when my ex-husband's black crack dealer woman called me a nigger, I took it as compliment. Just remember folks, it's a term that can be used to denote acceptance, but don't use it to put someone down. Like when I say, nigga please, that means you are my friend, and I want you to agree with something that I'm saying. See, and when you are a white dude trying to justify the use of the adjective "niggardly," well then, you are always wrong. There, my simple rules for the use of the word nigger.
