was anyone here actually asked to read Huck Finn during their schooling? I still believe this was a move to get it_on_the curriculum, to which the whole parents argument comes second.
Personally, I'd rather have to original text because it opens the door to discussion and all.
But I'm not a black parent either. so forgive me for throwing 4chan's internet survey out the window.
anyone else see the irony in having to jump a word-filter hurdle in a topic about censorship, my minority friends of mine?
When I was talking about responsibility earlier, i was also referring to today's rap music. They're to blame as much as anyone else.
But then I remembered how
Na
s turned the term on its head. Black men own the word now. I'll go a step further and say black men and women are making modern society pay a penance with each use of the word nigger in their vernacular and music.
It's a history lesson each time. These kids (the same kids who are reading Huck Finn) are getting educated to a period in time without even realizing it. When they're kids it's nigga this, nigga that. When they're adults it's ...Hmmm.. Nigger this, Nigger that.. okay.
So when Nas says he is a nigger it's subversive social commentary at its best, though it's also a disservice because we'll never move beyond its negative connotation. inb4 who the fuck is Nas
i think it's a great way of indoctrinating the history of the word to the youth. but, yeh, it's the penance we'll pay for slavery; the word and a division are both here to stay. So some kid doing it for the lulz may vote no on removing it from the text, but an educated black man would vote the same.
so it's forever pejorative, and a victory for all - well, for at least the bigot and Cornel West.
But black men have really taken the law into their own hands. The real losers here are the people who are responsible enough an for open discourse about the word, its history, and the underlying context in the book. but huck finn has been a school board issue for some time now. 2011 hits, boom, a change has been made, that's pretty fishy imo. (change for the sake of change; claim parental concern and political correctness)
we need some more black commentary on this subject. Calling Tigerlily to the thread