January 2011
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I don’t usually post about literature, but I think this is important. Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it.
As a chronic sufferer of white guilt, I was hesitant to say anything about this whole dumb idea of replacing the word “nigger” with “slave” in a goofy new edition of Huckleberry Finn. But I can live with reblogging Albert’s smart little piece about it:
To edit the word from our literature we…