Well minded or not it distorts our history, our past. Here is another example thereof, this time from the Land of Cotton.
Alabama's NewSouth Books is planning on releasing a new edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn without the word "nigger," reports the New York Times. The word, which occurs 219 times in Mark Twain's classic text, is replaced by "slave" in the revised edition.
Beauty.
The idea for a sanitized version came from Alan Gribben, a professor of English at Auburn University in Alabama, Sir Charles Barkley's alma mater, who felt uncomfortable saying the word out loud.
Dude, you are the one who gives the word its power.
Professor Gribben told the NYT that "I found myself right out of graduate school at Berkeley not wanting to pronounce that word when I was teaching either 'Huckleberry Finn' or 'Tom Sawyer,'. And I don't think I'm alone." No you are not alone Mr. Professor and that sucks.
Not everyone is thrilled by the revised version, which also substitutes "Indian" for "injun." Since news of the new edition spread last week, the publisher has been inundated by complaints of censorship and political correctness.
Like this one.
WFDS
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