Posted on 11/05/2010 7:56:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PALM COAST, Fla. -- A Florida school committee has canceled a high school production of "To Kill a Mockingbird" because of offensive language in the play.
The theater director at Flagler Palm Coast High School, Ed Koczergo, says the problem is the N-word. Koczergo says the word can't be removed from the script because of copyright laws.
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In our foul-mouthed, anything-goes age, I notice that potty-mouths who think nothing of sprinkling the "F" word all over their speech, or, as you mentioned, taking the Lord's name in vain, still will not say "that" word. It's the one taboo. If it has to be referred to at all, we must say, "The N word!!!"
It really is ridiculous to give a mere word that kind of power.
I read Tom Sawyer to my son when he was real little. 5 or 6 I suppose. Kept the “N-word” in there for him, and explained it to him. Adds a whole bunch to the book considering how Tom Sawyer treated Jim (I think that is the slave’s name?)
The same goes for “To Kill a Mockingbird”. The “N-word” needs to stay in there - mainly because it IS a racist and demeaning word as used in the story.
Of course, two “rap artists” greeting each other on the street with “Hey ni****” isn’t, as it is culturally accepted by both.
BTW, it REALLY bothers me not being able to write the “N-word” when talking about it in a civil manner. But figured the post might get pulled if I don’t. Stupid PC crap.
Not to say that I wasn’t embarrassed when 20 years ago, my 95 year-old grandma at the time was talking about how “that nice ni****** girl (50 years old I suppose!) came over and brought some muffins and I made coffee and we had such a nice time together....”
Really? I find that hard to believe.
This is just sad. I saw that play done by a local amateur group. It’s an outstanding play. Of course, it’s not racist at all; it’s just the reverse.
Guess we will never get to see Porgy and Bess ever again.
It’s so that the little darlings don’t learn that the Democrats loved slavery, caused the Civil War, that the KKK terrorized the country for 100 years, lynching, Tuskegee syphilis experiments, etc.
Yup. A copyright is a copyright. That's why it's called a copyright.
Oh, well sure, now that you explain it. /s
Figures; but urinating on Jesus doesn’t count.
Nigger. Nigger. Nigger. So sue me.
Don’t they understand that censoring this out of our history will only confuse whites in 2047 when they ask why they have to perpetually subsidize black America?
I read To Kill A Mockingbird at 15, and somehow no racism rubbed off on me. In fact, the story is a close-up criticism of old-style Southern racism and how it works. It's a morality play.
And as for Tom Sawyer, our fifth grade teacher, a young women freshly graduated from a small midwestern college, read the entire book to the class aloud. She encouraged the entire class to read the book on their own at the same time, and also recommended the more controversial Huckleberry Finn, which deals head on with the immorality of slavery, and racial attitudes that beleaguer Huck's best friend, the runaway slave Jim. That was in 1959 and no complaints from parents, no fuss from anyone.
Today, you can barely open your mouth in our fine, government-run gulags schools without the threat of lawsuits and students being arrested in handcuffs.
This is stupid.
Was the supposedly-offensive word deleted from the screen version?
IDIOTS.
PC is killing this country.
Fahrenheit 451, for sure.
And, liberals are NOT for censorship./sarc
IDIOTS. (how the hell do they make it through life?)
That would be a great idea.
What about airlines? They have edited movies.
That is their goal.
Yes, times were very different. In those days we did not "catch a tiger by the toe" when we were deciding who was first-up in sand lot baseball.
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