The "N" Word Deception
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Posted By: Michelle Diane on January 09, 2011 Have ya’ll heard, Auburn University professor, Alan Gribben is due to release his rewritten version of Mark Twain. Mr. Gribben decided in his vast, politically correct, wisdom that the time had come to eradicate the“N” word from the classics Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. Cyberspace is aflame with the debate over this rewritten censorship of Twain; most agree, me among them,that this whitewashing is a travesty. Professor Gribben penned his bastardization in effort to make the works once more available in schools and more palatable to general readership. ”We may applaud Twain’s ability as a prominent American literary realist to record the speech of a particular region during a specific historical era, but abusive racial insults that bear distinct connotations of permanent inferiority nonetheless repulse modern-day readers,” the professor recently told the Wall Street Journal. As a Constitutional Independent, I am more than a little concerned about the grease such censorship smears on the already slippery slope of our 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech. As an African American I am enraged by the deception of it all. Can we please get real up inhere? The word is “****” n-i-g-g-e-r and why do we give a f*ck whether Mark Twain, Dr. Laura or Joe Blow says it out loud? We ain’t got to do nothing but take a glance around our lives our reality to know spoken or not, they still mean it. They play this politically correct, post-racial bullsh*t just like they played cross country, brand new, community centers in the 70s. Their “N”word and the unending controversy they stir around it is just another distraction move and we’re playing into it. Do we really believe that if they can no longer say it to our face, they will no longer perpetuate it as a systemic reality? Well newsflash, it ain’t fixin to happen. This is a major step on the map back to slavery ya’ll and we better wake up and pay attention. The last great deception, integration, cost us the shops, markets and services in our communities, in short our economic base. It scattered us uptown and to the suburbs and fragmented our once community unity and it paved the road to the mass fratricide among our youth.It robbed them of teachers who knew and had a vested interest in sharing our history; it robbed them of teachers, neighbors, a community that supported and uplifted them. Now, they want us to buy their whitewashed vocabulary and their feigned outrage at the injustices of the past. Don’t misunderstand I know that there are millions of sincere white folks in this battle and I know they don’t understand that once again they are the tools of deception. I mean think about it, don’t they always put well-meaning, short-sighted white folks on the front lines of whatever lie they are systematically perpetrating? more If you enjoyed this article, Join BlackInAmerica.com today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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Michelle Diane
Writer/Editor, Self UT at Arlington class of 2012 Member Since August 2008 |
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Thanks for the link Michelle. I will be taking a closer look.
Sunday, January 9th 2011 at 1:44PM |
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@ Michelle Wassup you? Happy New Year to you! It's been a minute since I've read from you. I was thinking about people who I haven't seen here in a long time and here you are. I'm just sayin' its good to see you. Take care! Sunday, January 9th 2011 at 3:18PM |
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Happy New Year... Michelle.... uuuummmm the "N" Evolution/Revolution... LOL
Sunday, January 9th 2011 at 9:07PM |
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@Jen and @Cynthia Happy New Year to both of you. @Jen girl is is so nice to know you think of me; thank you. Cynthia, s'star, it ain't no laughing matter. the deception and it's consequences are all too real. I wrote about them here: http://michellediane-naked.blogspot.com If you get a chance, please give a read. I hear you loud and clear Queen Irma. Loud and clear. And Steve, my friend, please take that closer look. Let me know what you think and feel free to share the link. :-) Sunday, January 9th 2011 at 10:47PM |
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ME, "I" am going to continue to try and understand why we in teh black community have accepted the powers that be to allow it is alright for the Black community to say "BLACK" BUT NOT "*****"... OR ARE WE IN DENIAL THAT THE HISTORY OF BIA SAYS THESE TWO WORDS HAD THE SAME DEFINITIONS EXCEPT ***** COULD BE SAID IN TWO TONES OF HATE, BUT BLACK COULD NOT BE DONE LIKE THIS?!? (SMILE) ...not personal only seeking the truth of this matter... Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM |
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@Michelle, I keep saying that since I have never been called a N word or called any one this...but have been called in my 68 years of being born and raised in the deep south been called '*****' ,I will continue to use the word *****...END OF STORY... or at least until it is taken out of teh dictonaly along with the full ban on all of the works with this word in it. (smile) Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM |
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