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Although Jim is referred to as Nigger Jim throughout the story, it not until the end of the book, when Huck finally realizes that Jim is a man like any other man, does he refer to him as just plain "Jim".
Do I have this right?
"(Their) ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere."
This should earn him an Academy Award, now that Halle Berry has opened the door for him.
Well, that and alive in the 1800s...
"Responding to calls from black conservative leader Rev. Jesse Patterson that the Hip-Hop community begin policing ITSELF and turn away from such mental and aural garbage, JuggyZ's publicist, SnotD, responded 'Yo, man, we gonna whap that nigga Patta-son upside he big ol' haid, man!'"
"You have to be African American to understand what we've been through," he told the school board.
What the hell has Johnnie been through that has been so trying? He has never been a slave. He has never been bought and sold. He has never been subjected to Jim Crow laws. But because of his skin color, he claims to have suffered. This group identity is a crutch for Johnnie. It provides him with instantaneous victimhood, without having to go through the bother of actually being victimized.
This attitude, no doubt reinforced by his white liberal teachers, will ensure that Johnnie gets absolutely nowhere in life, and it provides him with a no-fault-of-his own, ready-made excuse when he gets there.
The essays cover the contributions of African Americans in science, language arts and other disciplines, said Carolyn Leonard, compliance officer for Portland Public Schools. The essays have been challenged for their authenticity, but have been used by teachers around the world.
Teach them the wrong stuff, if that’s what makes them feel good. Accuracy no longer has anything to do with the word “correct.”
Teachers do not need "sensitivity training" to teach using Huckleberry Finn. What they need is competence in English and American literature, and an understanding of the difference between quality writing and drivel.
But that's too much to ask, I suppose.
Congressman Billybob
A Dispatch from the Front, Plus Some Comments on Norwegian Charisma
It is truly sad that American kids are being fed a politically correct line villifying Mark Twain.
The following is from the book titled "The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain," and found under the subject "Race."
Samuel clemens, although not a college graduate himself, paid for the college education of two gifted black men, one of whom graduated from Yale Law School and became a judge, the other graduated from a Southern seminary and became a minister. Clements did not do this as a publicity stunt; in fact, he made no mention of it anywhere in his writings. It was not until 1985 that a Yale scholar unearthed documentary proof of Clemen's tuition payments and a letter to the deam of Yale explaining his motives. It was a partial payment of the reparation "due from every white man to every black man" for having perpetrated the crime of slavery.
The lunatics are in charge of the asylum.
Many people from Niger/Congo wound up on slave ships and as sailors working for foreigners who pronounced the word as it looks, hence it was not meant as what politically correct dumbed downs and other idiots think of as a “hate” word, it was simply a mispronounced word denoting where a person was from and who he/she was.
Young Williams and his peers will probably never know the beauty of America’s Aesop’s Fables by Joel Chandler Harris, loved by children of all ages and races. Or the hauntingly beautiful poems of Howard Weeden about plantation life and his wonderful black and white watercolors of the people he wrote about, knew and loved. Shakespeare and the Moors; today’s students learn little of the great literature but a lot about Black hate from authors who never knew anything but inner city ghettos and impoverished countries run by dictators that still enslave people. The well educated person of any color, never seems to have a problem with vernacular or patois of cultures, it is only the deliberately dumbed down American public school student and those teachers who ascribe to Political Correctness that are the loosers.
The Portland School Board will continue a disservice to their teachers and the children entrusted to them to teach if they bow to this childish and silly accusation of Charles McGee and Johnnie Williams, a form of racism in its self.
Stories like the one above make me wonder exactly how he would like the history of slavery treated? Candy coating the situation would surely piss him off, but when it is acurately depicted he gets pissed off about that. Maybe he should rewrite Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer using the PC language and see how it flies.
Pssst, hey whiners, news bulletin:
MINORITIES WERE NOT CALLED "PEOPLE OF COLOR," "AFRICAN-AMERICANS," OR WHATEVER UNTIL JUST RECENTLY. THE WORLD DID NOT BEGIN THE SPLIT-SECOND YOU WERE BORN. ALSO, THERE WERE PLENTY OF DEROGATORY NAMES FOR WHITE PEOPLE IN THE PAST. IRISH, SCOTTISH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, FRENCH, GERMAN, ETC. PEOPLE WERE NOT IMMUNE. I SUGGEST THAT YOU TAKE ALL OF THAT TIME AND ENERGY THAT YOU PUT INTO GRIPING AND STIRRING UP TROUBLE, AND PUT IT INTO BETTERING YOURSELF AND LEARNING SOMETHING.
Anything in there about not being able to figure out boats?