Wednesday, January 5, 2011

RE-WRITING HISTORY CONTINUES

WE THE PEOPLE SHOULD NEVER EVER BE ASHAMED ABOUT OUR HISTORY. WE HAVE DONE GREATER GOOD FOR MANKIND THAN ANY OTHER PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. WE ARE ALL HUMANS WITH FAULTS ULTIMATELY HAVING COMPASSION FOR OUR FELLOW MAN.



The editor calls it more of an “updating” than censorship. But it’s hard to believe that stripping a classic novel of over 219 offensive words is anything but.
Auburn University Prof. Alan Gribben is working on a new edition of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer,” replacing N-word with “slave,“ ”Injun” with Indian, “half-breed” with half-blood in an effort not to offend readers.



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