It's revisionist history. Ignorant black people will continue to complain about it being required reading in school and ignorant whites will respond by suggesting and considering alteration an established piece of merited literature to erase racism from the legacy of American literature. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a good work and the use of the N word in it is simply a sign of the times. We can't get butthurt that the terminology was included creative works because to do so would be to deny that there was ever a point in time where it was acceptable in reality. Remove the N word and you too would have to remove the discrepancies between the then-understood roles of men and women, the bigoted and caricature-like impressions of Asian immigrants as well as various other American ideologies that have faded away from acceptability over time.
The truth hurts and this attempt to wipe away the stains of the past is no different than every nation we've ever vilified's attempts to recreate their own legacy. Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and Communist China had all recreated their histories to a certain extent to appear more dominant, favored or even justified to future generations. And here we are, supposedly god's gift to the world, denying what they used that very god to vindicate in an attempt to shed the racist and bigoted roots of this nation.
No comments:
Post a Comment