Posted on 12/15/2015 3:55:46 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
The politically correct crowd just got a great American novel banned
By David K. Li
A suburban Philadelphia school expelled “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn†from its curriculum over the book’s overuse of the N-word.
The Friends’ Central School removed the Mark Twain classic from the 11th-grade American literature class last week after students said it made them feel uncomfortable, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
“We have all come to the conclusion that the community costs of reading this book in 11th grade outweigh the literary benefits,†principal Art Hall said in a letter to parents.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Someone out there isn't teaching English, or even American Literature very well.
I read that back when. It has held its value very well, considering it was a 75 cent paperback.
I read the book ages ago.
He dedicated it to his grandmother: ‘The next time you hear that word, remember they are talking about my book.’
Dick Gregory also wrote (paraphrase from memory): I was sittin’ down ready to eat a chicken when these three guys came up to me - you know Klu, Klux and Klan - and they told me that whatever I did to that chicken they would do to me. So I picked it up and kissed it!
Every time I hear the word “crush” I think of the original Conan movie.
Mongol General: What is best in life?
Conan: Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
So let’s ban Rap then, they use the N-word all the time.
Not surprised. Huck Finn’s been one of the most banned or “challenged” books for decades. Almost always for the same reasons (i.e. the use of the “N-word”, etc.).
I guess the fact that the main theme (or one of them) is a kid like Huck learning to overcome his prejudice, and coming to see Jim for the content of his character and not the color of his skin, kind of eludes the SJW crowd.
11th graders cannot handle a work of fiction written in the 19th century (that is the 1800s for those who may be bad at math) but it’s perfectly okay to teach them how to put condoms on bananas, teach them to experiment sexually with unnatural and until recently universally agreed immoral practices.
The inmates are running the asylum.
the 1968 Communist cultural revolution continues. The past is being altered.
Orwell knew what the Stalinists would do if given a chance.
These so called “students” are just a bunch of programmed sissies. History scares the crap out of them because being forced to learn things is “rasis.”
I had to read that book in 7th grade, 10th grade, and as a freshman in college.
If I had to drag my butt through that book three times, kids today should be forced to read it at least once.
The N word is used in that book less than it is in any Snoop Dogg song. Who are these people kidding.
Do we teach “context” in school any more?
I read it. My daughter read it. And my granddaughter will read it. And her children, God willing.
His writing always struck me as simplistic and the dialect he wrote verbatim in those editions was an annoyance and really slowed the reading
There are other, better books as you note
11th grade??? I read this thing in middle school.
Thank you for your post. Huck’s apiphamy on the raft is one of literatures greatest indictments of slavery. Do you know that the book was banned at one time because it featured a white boy treating a black as an equal?
***Huck hiding out on Jackson Island and he hears the cannon from the steamboat coming, and the bread with the Mercury in it, ***
Oh, WOW! I had forgotten that part! It’s only been fifty five years since I read it!
The Story of Little Black Sambo is a children's book written and illustrated by Helen Bannerman, and first published by Grant Richards in October 1899 as one in a series of small-format books called The Dumpy Books for Children. The story was a children's favorite for more than half a century though criticism began as early as 1932.
Simple plot,
Sambo is a South Indian boy who lives with his father and mother, named Black Jumbo and Black Mumbo, respectively. While out walking, Sambo encounters four hungry tigers, and surrenders his colourful new clothes, shoes, and umbrella so they will not eat him. The tigers are vain and each thinks he is better dressed than the others. They chase each other around a tree until they are reduced to a pool of melted butter. Sambo then recovers his clothes and collects the butter, which his mother uses to make pancakes.
Showed Sambo as a quicker thinker, nothing deprecating about it. I retain the memory of the succesive drawings showing tigers chasing one another around the tree in a blur until the final puddle of butter. I mean, it's not as though he gutted and skinned the protected man-killer tigers, is it?
Are the Quakers still sending armies of traitorous leftist larvae to Cuba to cut sugar cane?
This photo purports to be a young Hillary Clinton in Cuba as part of the Venceramos Brigades recruited in tge USA to help with Castro'sbsugar harvest.
Suspect its true because she's commandeered the tractor, leaving the black woman to do the hard work.
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