Posted on 12/02/2016 7:26:14 PM PST by dynachrome
Didn’t Plato want to ban Homer’s “The Iliad”?
Maybe they should add, “Art of the Deal” TO the Reading List !
But I bet this parent lets their kid(s) listen to degrading Beyonce and other rappers who use the N word all the time.
I never read ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’. Didn’t like the movie. I always liked Twain. He wrote a lot of stuff you never hear about..
Hahaha....not likely....tooooooo hard.
Superficial thought wins once more.
Twain’s novel was intended to condemn racism by example and illustration. And it’s not like people have quit using the N-word today even. It’s still fine, as long as you’re black, or if you are a whitey writing rap for black fartists.
It oughtta at least be asked.
I can easily see how "nigger" in a classic American novel is a paramount concern, especially since blacks use the word to describe themselves so much.
True story. A black punk in Louisville, KY, referred to his white teacher as "niggah." The teacher referred to the student as "niggah." The punk filed a complaint and all the Louisville affirmative action, community action, leeches came of the woodwork to march for a cause.
This crap is ridiculous. It needs to end. It's time for the ultra sensitive black community to get over it already.
It’s an interesting book, by a black guy of course.
“Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word”
‘It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and explores the controversies that rage around it.’
Yeah, it’s like the black community commonly uses it as an evil buzz, now.
If someone wrote a rap song “We’re Better Than Niggers” would it ever get any air time?
“——among the items to pitch was a First Edition “Tom Sawyer”
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That’s incredible——what a find.
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It was as it was, it is as it is. Mores and political values change with the generations.
My father, a senior naval officer in the mid to late ‘50s, born and bred in the deep south, was the first to approve a young and top rate black graduate of Annapolis to sea duty on his ship.
Old Dominated, sounds like.
That’s the funny part. Both books are anti-racism. I wonder if the complainers have ever read them.
Named?....where,they don’t usually...
Just what is it that stops her from “getting past it” that doesn’t stop an estimated 300 million others from “getting past it?”
Special snowflakes are special.
....not pass the cover....but they counted,thank goodness for Dollar Store calculators
That freed up library shelf space for books like Heather has Two Mommies and the like.
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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