Posted on 03/22/2019 6:22:35 AM PDT by SMGFan
Two New Jersey Assembly members want school districts to stop teaching Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” because of racist language and themes in the 134-year-old story.
The book chronicles the travels of Huckleberry Finn, who ran away from his abusive father, and Jim, a runaway slave, along the the Mississippi River. It’s set in the antebellum south but was written in the early days of the JIm Crow Laws.
It contains more than 200 uses of the N-word and “its depiction of racist attitudes can cause students to feel upset, marginalized, or humiliated and can create an uncomfortable atmosphere in the classroom,” according to a resolution introduced Monday by Assembly members Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D-Mercer) and Jamal Holley (D-Union).
“The inclusion of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the school curriculum in effect requires adolescents to read and discuss a book containing hurtful, oppressive, and highly offensive language directed toward African Americans,” the resolution says. “The list of required reading in schools should be inclusive and considerate of all students, without content likely to cause students to feel uncomfortable and marginalized.”
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The American Nazi Party really has to go.
The same idiots want to have a day to honor those in entertainment that give us gangsta rap, violent movies and porn but hey....worldview you know.
Can anybody here confirm that at the LEAST, MLK saw prostitutes, thereby giving money to further extend sexual slavery, and at the WORST, he beat the #### out of them??
I want to email my house rep to get the streets and highway named after him changed.
The Public Schools idea has run its course. It’s now become public indoctrination.
So let’s go back to the former model for education, private schools.
The government can issue vouchers, like it did for the GI Bill, and let you spend the money at whatever school you want.
Huck Finn? It’s blacks.
“This is one of the earliest pieces of American literature to take a stand against racism and he does that by really showing Jim as a human being ... a fellow traveler with equal rights and he depicts Huck’s growth,” Roos said. “That’s how the book should be taught.”
+1
Will Tina Fey, Ellen DeGeneres, David Letterman, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus each give back their Mark Twain Prize?
It is clear that these people do not understand Huckleberry Finn. It is a coming of age story of a boy growing up in a racist environment and overcoming his upbringing to see the humanity of blacks, even of slaves. It is a anti-slavery, anti-racist, anti-bigotry story.
These people see “words” without understanding the context the words are used. Who are the real racist here?
That's what PC does, it changes the meaning of words.
Believe we have the winner of this thread. Over and over, I see so many examples of how leftism is very anti literacy and anti intellectual.
Patently stupid and foolish. Sam Clemens used the book to excoriate the antebellum South and slavery. Jim, while an uneducated, and sometimes superstitious slave, is unmistakably a real character, not a caricature.
The language was accurate for its time. It is foolish to dump a book that is one of the few contemporary works to undermines the romantic notions of the South popular in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Modern day warrior today’s Tom Sawyer,
floated down the river on a raft with a black guy
When they come for my copy of “Huckleberry Finn”. I have no plans for giving it up. It’s a first edition, first printing copy.
That's funny, I want to expell New Jersey schools and law makers from the United States.
Maybe we can come to a compromise, we both get what we want.
“I want to email my house rep to get the streets and highway named after him changed.”
How will you otherwise know what area to avoid in a strange city?
Freedom of Speech is the Freedom to Offend without consequences.
“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” - Thomas Edison
Clemens is laughing from beyond the grave. The book is 134 years old and it’s still upsetting idiots and the small minded. That’s quite a record, well done Sam.
I suppose it’s too much for the illiterates to understand that Jim but runaway slave is the only fully decent person in the book.
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