Taylor schools expel 'Huck Finn' - 11-02-06 - The Detroit News Online
Maybe they can bring in that little racist girl who writes the "I hate Whitey" poetry...
This so-called "parent" needs their ass kicked. This is America! We have a First Amendment. Mark Twain is America! Huck Finn is America! This "parent" is a scumbag.
Huckleberry Finn should be recognized as the most important book of the Civil Rights movement.
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But how to be a homosexual books are encouraged.
Samuel Clements (Mark Twain) was an abolitionist. Huck referred to the runaway slave Jim as "nigger Jim" in the first of the book. Many people can't get beyond this to the progression of their relationship where Huck sees Jim as a friend and an equal and refers to him as "Jim".
What's disturbing is that political correctness is taken to such an extreme the the word "nigger" nowhere appears in this article, even in quotes, when it's appearance in the book is central to the whole controversy. How ridiculous.
Well, there's always "Are You There God? It's me, Margaret."
But they refuse to pull King and King from elementary schools!! Likewise other homosexual stories. This country has lost ALL it's bearings.
But of course we do.. and also be sensitive to adults who refuse to grow up.
Actually, to anyone with a wit of common sense, the "racist" portions of Huckleberry Finn are (unlike a John Kerry attempt at humor) IRONIC!
Jim always saw and articulated things more clearly than the White folks, he just wasn't taken seriously because of his race. Some White person was always taking credit for his insights and ideas.
The racists words used by characters in Huck Finn are so obviously at variance with the situations depicted that the overall effect is to subtly undermine the pervailing (even in the North and most of Europe) racism of the day.
Please grow up, people.
Yeah, but if it was pulled for teaching evolution, then people would cheer, right?
sigh.....
Guess they had to make room on the shelves for copies of "My Two Daddies" or "Mommy's Girlfriend" ?
Didn't Rush used to refer to Detroit as "New Fallujah"?
The crucial scene in the novel shows Huck at war with himself; the society of his day has been teaching him from birth that turning in Jim is the right thing to do, the legal thing to do, the only thing to do. It goes even deeper: Huck thinks he will be literally damned to Hell if he doesn't turn in Jim to the authorities. But he doesn't, willing to endure the fires of Hell forever rather than betray the trust of his friend.
There is no greater lesson.
Those banning 'Huckleberry Finn' aren't reading 'Huckleberry Finn'. This kind of thoughtless PC hypersensitivity breaks my heart.
Has this mother ever actually read this book?
Great! Then drop all of the homosexual indoctrination campaigns because you hurt the Christian and Jewish kid's feelings.
Is that all it takes, a parent's complaint, to have a book removed? Hasn't anyone complained about books that advocate homosexuality?
Huckleberry Finn is a classic, and should not be banned. As the little girl in the DN article said, there are books in the school library with worse words.
Almost, but not quite, the first thought that occurred to me. Since I don't listen to rap, I wouldn't know about that part. I was thinking I hear "the racial epithet" used in casual conversation by African American kids on the subway or the street all the time.
Next I thought that the non-African American kids in the class would be more traumatized having to hear or say a word that's been drilled into us is a bad word. I remember how embarrassed I was when I first heard it used in a pejorative fashion by someone in public.
Also from the Detroit News article, "In earlier years, it was targeted because of its sympathetic portrayal of African-Americans". How ironic. I wonder if Mama Offended is aware of that little fact.