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#216 The Adventures of Mark Twain

Randal

on Jan. 5, 2011

Incidentally, there is a stop motion film with the same name as this strip. I can watch it again and again and again. Incidentally, I realize that "nigger" has been replaced by "slave" and not "negro" in the new edition of Huck Finn, but you can't have a punchline that says "there's no impact in 'slave'!" because it's just not true.

I liken the friendlifying of the language in this book (Coming to stores this February) to saying the Nazi's put Jews in summer camps where kids then think of swiming, canoeing and campfires. If you lessen the impact of hatred portrayed in history, whether it be true accounts or a great American novel (which was designed to remind people that it's how we act, not how we're born that should quantify a person) then those who come after are cheated out of the truth.

I want my kids to know that back then there was a section of the population that was treated like property and what the impact of that meant to the property. Therefore, my kids will read the intact version of Huck Finn. They will know that people didn't refer to their slaves as "slaves", they refered to them as "niggers". If you don't want your kids to repeat the sins of the forefather, tell them the truth.

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