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To: Jorge
Since when does a well "rounded education" need to include racial slurs?

Since any understanding of civilization, culture, and society depends on understanding the history that lead to it. It's like asking why "The Red Badge of Courage" has to have all that icky bloodshed in it.

The whole point of "Huckleberry Finn" is that Huck stops seeing Jim as a lowly "nigger" and realizes that he is his best friend and the best human he knows. Huck overcomes the matrix of the society around him.

104 posted on 11/03/2006 9:44:47 PM PST by LexBaird (98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
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To: LexBaird
The whole point of "Huckleberry Finn" is that Huck stops seeing Jim as a lowly "nigger" and realizes that he is his best friend and the best human he knows.

How beautiful. I think I'm gonna cry.

108 posted on 11/03/2006 9:50:02 PM PST by Jorge
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To: LexBaird

Have you read the Red Badge of Courage?


212 posted on 11/04/2006 2:21:19 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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