Topic?
The removal of the n-word from Mark Twain's masterpiece Huckleberry Finn. I've never read Huck Finn. I can kind of recall seeing the movie many many moons ago as a child or young adult. I can't remember which (that damn brain thing again).
I just think it's such a mute point. Include the word, remove the word, obtain parental consent, ban the book. While I was watching the show I had to really ask myself self, is it really that serious. You want to start censoring literary classics?
A dear friend once offered a suggestion about this diabolical word. Let's stop giving it so much power and recognition. I can agree with that. But in this particular instance. Let's give it all the power and recognition it merits.
Listening to classmates and educators recite the word in an educational forum... a classroom setting.... a lecture hall..... might just make people of color and other ethnic groups more aware of how ridiculous and two sided the coin is. He can say it but she can't! We can use it but y'all can't! It means different things to different people!
Please!!!!
Mark Twain's work shouldn't be censored for it's usage of a word that we negroes use as a term of endearment on a daily basis. Oh, I feel a rant coming on and so, I will move on. There is, however, a very insightful and well written article about teaching Huck Finn written by a black educator who knows all to well the sting of the word in question, as she was the only black student in her junior class at Parma High School in southeast Missouri during the fall of 1963.
Happy New Year guys and gals! I hope 2011 is your year.
I certainly plan on it being a blast for me!!
