There is other literature they'd rather "grapple".
Posted on 12/11/2015 7:32:03 PM PST by markomalley
After The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1885, the book was boycotted in some places in the United States for portraying friendship between a black man and a white boy.
"In its time, it was derided and censored," said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, deputy director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, which tracks challenges to books.
Today, Mark Twain's classic - about a boy who flees his abusive father and travels down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave - is still sometimes challenged in American schools, but for nearly the opposite reason: its liberal use of the N-word and perceived racist portrayals of black characters.
This week, a Montgomery County school removed Huckleberry Finn from its curriculum after a group of students said the book made them uncomfortable.
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The part with the duke and the dauphin was tedious.
“Liberals have a big problem with reality, whether it be now or ever”
They are “progressive”, or “forward looking”, because they don’t want to examine or even admit to the existence of the bloody trail of ruin that was caused by them in the past!
The chapter about French is a hoot. Jim out-argues Huck even though Jim is wrong and Huck is right, as any reader will immediately realize. Once when I was in Europe I saw an English reader for high school students taking English as a foreign language--it had that as their selection from Twain.
I’ll take your word on this. Books I have are all non-fiction in the era.
Eliminating the works of Samuel by the left is something I will never understand.
History is where it all begins. It is who we are.
Liberals are fascists. They might call me a bigot, racist, muslim doubter but they are the true fascists.
Like Baron Nucingen speaking broken Alsatian French in Balzac's "La Comédie humaine."
What a sorry-assed world we live. Clemmons wrote of life he lived and observed in his era. Huck, Tom, Injin Joe , and Jim were my childhood friends. (Forgive me Aunt Polly, you were the practical and grounded adult). I read and re-read Clemmon’s books many times as a youth. Those that take political umbrage to Clemmon’s books are so lacking in intellect and literary understanding. These are the same idiots that took our Stephen Foster’s music without a murmur from the unwashed. Shame on us! I am still extremely pissed that I could not find an un-edited , “politically un-correct” copy of “Tom Sawyer” or “Life on the Mississippi” to give to the grand children. Try searching for “Song of the South” featuring Uncle Remus. Good luck with that!
What would that appraise for? curious
And those @$$hole$ don’t have a clue that “Nigger Jim” was a GOOD GUY. And that Huck never felt that he was any better than Jim. Sam Clemens was ahead of his time. Obama is WAY behind the times!
There is other literature they'd rather "grapple".
Maybe we should nitpick Shakespeare and Homer. I’m sure there is a lot of material there. Some one is suing the Met for showing the Classical Art depiction of Jesus as racist?
Here are ten great American novels that students should read; Moby Dick, the great American novel ever written, my favorite the ultimate struggle of good and evil; East of Eden; Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn; Scarlet Letter; Great Gatsby; Grapes of Wrath, Old Man and the Sea, Catch-22, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Some others are Gone with the Wind, On the Road, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, All the Kings Men, Red Badge of Courage.
Read and learn what was happening in America and how we were formed. The good, the bad and the ugly.
I haven’t read most of those.
I did like “Young Goodman Brown.”
Exactly the same as ISIS blowing up Palmyra.
Just call it a hiphop novel.
I drank my safe space ;)
Always buy extra safe spaces when in town.
Your credits come from combat.
“Eliminating the works of Samuel by the left is something I will never understand. History is where it all begins. It is who we are.”
You answered your own question; they are removing the WASP contributions to the founding & building of this country from memory, and replacing it with history starting with the end of slavery, focusing on Jim Crow, women’s suffrage, and the Stonewall riot. The WASPs, like Tolkien’s elves, are disappearing, and being replaced with people who could never have built this country (and are quite content to flush it down the tubes).
Really. Every time I hear a teacher say, "I learn more from them than they do from me," I think, "Then you're an idiot."
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