On Nov 1, 3:48 pm, jls
bellsouth.net> wrote:> On Nov 1, 12:28 pm, greg3347
lycos.com> wrote:
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>>> On Nov 1, 3:22 am,
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>>> Spade Moslem 'convert' apparently wants the Joe Camel easy reader to replace
>>> Huck Finn as part of his personal 'educational plan'.
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>>> School district apologizes to student over N-word use
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>>> 10:07 PM CDT on Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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>>> By DARLA MILES / WFAA-TV
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>>> Today, there's a book battle brewing over Mark Twain's Adventures of
>>> Huckleberry Finn, after the N-word was used in class.
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>>> A short time ago - African American activists met with Birdville ISD
>>> authorities - wanting the book off the reading list.
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>>> The discussion, lasting two hours, stemmed from a meeting last Thursday,
>>> when the N-word was used during an English literature class.
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>>> The N-word was used in a vocabulary class to prepare students to read
>>> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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>>> The school district apologized to Mohamed and have agreed to implement
>>> sensitivity training for all their teachers in reference to
>>> African-American Muslim students.
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>>> He did not get an apology from the teacher in question.
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>>> The family will work with the district to remove Adventures of Huckleberry
>>> Finn from the curriculum.
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>> Be lines from Huck go something like this: Tom relates their
>> adventures to Aunt Polly:
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>> "Then the boiler blew up" (riverboat), says Tom. Aunt Polly, "my
>> gracious was anyone hurt?"
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>> Tom, "No, just killed a nigger".
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> 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.
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> On second thought, don't attempt it. You're too illiterate to get the
> gist of it.
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> And, btw, Jim the black slave in the novel probably had more humanity
> than any other character therein, except maybe Huck Finn, who adored
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JLS, our resident perpetual sophomore, should be delivering his Twain
Redemption mutterings to
the complaining groids.
greg
