On Nov 1, 12:28 pm, greg3347
lycos.com> wrote:>> Spade Moslem 'convert' apparently wants the Joe Camel easy reader to replace
>> Huck Finn as part of his personal 'educational plan'.
>
>> ----
>> School district apologizes to student over N-word use
>
>> 10:07 PM CDT on Wednesday, October 31, 2007
>
>> By DARLA MILES / WFAA-TV
>
>> Today, there's a book battle brewing over Mark Twain's Adventures of
>> Huckleberry Finn, after the N-word was used in class.
>
>> A short time ago - African American activists met with Birdville ISD
>> authorities - wanting the book off the reading list.
>
>> The discussion, lasting two hours, stemmed from a meeting last Thursday,
>> when the N-word was used during an English literature class.
>
>> The N-word was used in a vocabulary class to prepare students to read
>> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
>
>> The school district apologized to Mohamed and have agreed to implement
>> sensitivity training for all their teachers in reference to
>> African-American Muslim students.
>
>> He did not get an apology from the teacher in question.
>
>> The family will work with the district to remove Adventures of Huckleberry
>> Finn from the curriculum.
>
>
>
> Be lines from Huck go something like this: Tom relates their
> adventures to Aunt Polly:
>
> "Then the boiler blew up" (riverboat), says Tom. Aunt Polly, "my
> gracious was anyone hurt?"
>
> Tom, "No, just killed a nigger".
>
> greg- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Hey, Klanster, you misquoted Mark Twain, who wrote the passage to poke
fun at Aunt Polly and all the other Arkansas crackers who believed in
resurrection of the flesh and probably viewed Blacks as less than
human. Read the whole thing. And then put it in context.
On second thought, don't attempt it. You're too illiterate to get the
gist of it.
And, btw, Jim the black slave in the novel probably had more humanity
than any other character therein, except maybe Huck Finn, who adored
Jim.
