Posted on 11/03/2006 6:54:37 PM PST by Stoat
Taylor schools expel 'Huck Finn' - 11-02-06 - The Detroit News Online
Maybe they can bring in that little racist girl who writes the "I hate Whitey" poetry...
Long live the book-burning, tag-banning PC crowd *rolls eyes*
This so-called "parent" needs their ass kicked. This is America! We have a First Amendment. Mark Twain is America! Huck Finn is America! This "parent" is a scumbag.
Huckleberry Finn should be recognized as the most important book of the Civil Rights movement.
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But how to be a homosexual books are encouraged.
this from a parent who probably thinks the word "niggardly" is a racial slur..
Samuel Clements (Mark Twain) was an abolitionist. Huck referred to the runaway slave Jim as "nigger Jim" in the first of the book. Many people can't get beyond this to the progression of their relationship where Huck sees Jim as a friend and an equal and refers to him as "Jim".
What's disturbing is that political correctness is taken to such an extreme the the word "nigger" nowhere appears in this article, even in quotes, when it's appearance in the book is central to the whole controversy. How ridiculous.
I haven't heard about this (embarrassed)
Can you supply some additional information?
Thank you :-)
Well, there's always "Are You There God? It's me, Margaret."
But they refuse to pull King and King from elementary schools!! Likewise other homosexual stories. This country has lost ALL it's bearings.
But of course we do.. and also be sensitive to adults who refuse to grow up.
Samuel Clements (Mark Twain) was an abolitionist. Huck referred to the runaway slave Jim as "nigger Jim" in the first of the book. Many people can't get beyond this to the progression of their relationship where Huck sees Jim as a friend and an equal and refers to him as "Jim".
Precisely! It's an excellent learning tool in teaching anti racism!
How sad that some folks don't have the intelligence to understand Mark Twain's writings. Huck Finn was the first book ever to portray blacks as equal to whites.
Actually, to anyone with a wit of common sense, the "racist" portions of Huckleberry Finn are (unlike a John Kerry attempt at humor) IRONIC!
Jim always saw and articulated things more clearly than the White folks, he just wasn't taken seriously because of his race. Some White person was always taking credit for his insights and ideas.
The racists words used by characters in Huck Finn are so obviously at variance with the situations depicted that the overall effect is to subtly undermine the pervailing (even in the North and most of Europe) racism of the day.
Please grow up, people.
Yeah, but if it was pulled for teaching evolution, then people would cheer, right?
sigh.....
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