The "N" Word

Whenever possible twist reality...How dare they change the Classics! How will people of the future understand our roots if the idiots start putting in words that have no relevance to the truth of what was going on at the time. Wait until they listen to the music that African Americans write and listen to now. They will be totally confused about why people are punished for using the "N" word. It will make no sense at all to them. Have you ever looked at the list of books banned from schools? Most of them were on the required reading list when I was a kid. We had to do book reports on them...All races not just white kids.

but what on earth, this was what life was w hen Mark twain wrote his classics and mylord I loved them as I learned a lot about the way things were back then by reading his books. Why do they have to ruin what is good and honest and real history?They do not need a thing done to them but just to have them read in the original. I agree leave them alone they show real people and real life and let us see a taste of what life was like then.I learned about real friendship and understanding of the germans, and Swedes and Russians who were also american children freom the midwestern small town of Newell South Dakota and the adjoining farms. we were not racists, we were just kids together

I think that Tom Burlington should be getting his job back, and if he does not, then the judge is corrupted. Accepting for the moment that freedom of speech allows a word to be banned, there are several factors about Mr. Burlington's scenario: 1. He used the n-word in a staff meeting, it was not in a broadcast. 2. He used the n-word in context. They had just been discussing a real life event where african americans had used the full word at least a hundred times. Further more, the event had to do with burying the negatives associated with the word. 3. One black lady challenged him at the time he said it. 4. Burlington made a sincere effort to explain his comment to those who were in the meeting. 5. His use of the word was not directed as a slam against any person Based on how Burlington was treated, it really does seem like someone was promoting a culture of hatred in that work place. If in fact, we are going to determine that no white person can say the n-word, but any black person can. Then I propose the second banned word should be "affirmative-action". Any black person caught saying the word or benefiting from the activity must lose their job immediately. Zero Tolerance!

Someone commented that in twenty years people will be afraid to think. Well, that's the whole idea. If we don't know our past, if we can't face the truth and the facts, if we are completely cowed into voluntarily giving up free speech and education no longer equips us to think for ourselves, we will be living in a kind of prison of the mind. The value of Twain's work cannot be questioned. Like Charles Dickens, he was a moralist of his time. He wrote of the evils and the realities of the society he lived in and there is no way to convey these ideas or describe the world he lived in without the original language that was actually being used by those who lived in that time also. Funny, but Glenn Beck was just discussing this censorship and he noted that when President Obama was asked what was on his iPod, he answered that he had some Jay-Z. Beck pointed out that if you read Huck Finn you will read the N word a number of times but if you listen to one particular song by Jay-Z you will hear it 16 more times than you would if you read Huck Finn. I would put some Jay-Z lyrics here so mylotters could see the utter filth he spouts, but I know none of it would get by the mylot obscenity filters. I remember a few years back there was a fellow who had re-written the Bible to take out all references to right or left hands because he believed that left-handed people would be offended by such verses as "Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing". The idiots who want to censor Mark Twain don't believe our children can handle the in-context, historically accurate, morality-based commentary on life as it was but they don't worry a bit what our children will think when they sing along with Jay-Z about n***as and hoes and b1tches.

I remember having a lot of discussions with my two boys over Huckleberry Finn. They wondered about peoples' attitudes toward blacks and had never heard the "N" word before, nor the term "injun". By reading that book and having discussions with me, their attitudes towards people were shaped and their total disgust with racists was born. If no questions are ever asked, how do our children learn? If we don't know about mistakes we have made and shame we have felt, how do we avoid such heinous acts in the future? When I heard this I determined to get hold of an untouched copy as soon as I can, as well as Tom Sawyer.

I really think that this is rubbish. People are always twisting things out of context. Honestly, if they are going to make it so that a person can't use a particular word then they should make it where no one can use it. Allowing one group to to use a term but condemning another for the same thing would be considered racial discrimination. And it wasn't like the guy was using it on air. For that second example, why are they doing this? That's just ruining the classics! Can it be helped that these works were written when that word was frequently used. I mean, don't we have other more important things to worry about in this world?

I saw a Youtube Video of a black man decrying this stupidity of changing words in the Mark Twain books. He said it is wrong and should not be done. People need to stop being so idiotic. We have a history and part of that history was slavery of black people and other races yes even including white people. But mostly black people. They were called the N word not because it was derrogetory at first but because it was southern speech and dialect during that time they slurred the word "Negro" Which means black. It was the deep south dialect. As to anyone but black people being allowed to use the N word that is wrong and highly prejudical in itself. Either NO ONE can or everyone can. Here is what one black man feels about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUKOvsCrPZU and another from a Black Woman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivVUZpHjjG8&feature=related And another. Most do NOT want the N word removed from Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. It is plain offensive that some bozo wants to remove it at all. Get a reality check.

I am so glad its ok to sanitize. I think we should sanitize the Constitution, then maybe the Bible. (sarcasm) If you dont like whats written in the book, dont read it. I am very against censorship unless your censoring a liberal

WTF???? First off no one should ever use that disgusting word! Black white or otherwise. it's a horrible word that came from a horrible time in history!!! now for the book, I don't know about this one. being a person who is what i call a bookie, i am not ok with changing things. being that this book was written in a different time, i would leave it as it is.

"N1gger" in almost every context has completely become an accepted word, unless it's coming from a white person's lips that is. Some make the argument that black people have "taken a nasty word and empowered themselves by embracing it and using it." Okay. But wtf does a 20-year-old black kid washed in the hip hop culture know about the word's "meaning," other than HE'S allowed to say it but his white friend runs the risk of having his azz kicked for saying it? Honestly. What does this word mean to anyone? And if it means something so derogatory and something so damaging to one black person, does that then mean that another black person has to feel the exact same way? Are all black people alike suddenly? I know that the hella ironic PC culture views every single black person as the same, but the word has different meanings to someone like Al Sharpton and someone like Lil Bow Wow, for an example of two different men. All of this crap reminds me of Bill Maher, a white man, telling Amy Holmes, a black (biracial, I think) woman, that she should be upset with Mitt Romney because she's "black." Jeebus H! What planet do I live on? There's a movement currently underway by black individuals stating that they do not want to be referred to as "African-American," because they're not African. By and large, they're ignored. And I can never get over the fact that it's always elitist white people in their towers of guilt passing down judgment on how the rest of us should treat everyone else. They are wholly unable to discern a difference between any minority. "They're" all the same per the culture of no-no finger-wavers. Here's my personal bottom line, and I'm sure some disagree: You cannot have words that some can say while others can't. If an individual wants to say "n1gger" and then get mad when someone else with a different skin color says it, that's one thing. But to hire, fire, punish, etc, on a broad scale based on skin tone and the word is a bunch of BS. So the word has a long history and an originally bad meaning. Okay. Then EVERYONE stop saying or no one stop saying it. You'd think we're trying to build rockets here or something.

In another twenty years, we're going to be filled with a society of emotionally stunted people who are afraid to think about what it is considered to be socially acceptable. Brilliant, that is just really brilliant. Changing the classics offends me more than any word. In fact, any word being used in print, I barely blink, because its just a book. I'm not going to suddenly turn into some evil fire breathing demon who harvests on the internal organs of small children and neither are you. Some people, some people...I better not say exactly what I'm thinking, because its really not all that nice. I will say this. People who get up in arms are just looking for attention and the fact is they get their way, because they tend to be the most annoying people in the world and just want them to shut up. I think that the word slave offends me a lot more than the big N-Bomb. It is just trading a lot worst implication in. All black people are slaves. That's really offensive. Some people. This nation(and the world in general come to think about it) is going to be so sad when everyone is a bunch of spineless, politically collect people who go into a seizure when anything remotely controversial and outside of the box is said. SO STUPID!

However I read this word for first time but after reading your complete post I think you have used N for "Negro" and that is a racist word. I think the people are stupid who are using another word "slave" for already one there. They don't get it and I think someone have to take the step to stop them. I am against it. When will theses people get their head back??

Such censorship in our time is nothing but pure facism. So what if Mark Twain used the "N" word in his books. It was perfectly natural since that was the way people used to talk like back then. And if the media want such type of censorship, why not start whith those cheap 2cent movies where actually black people use the word constantly (not that I would agree with that either, but just saying). I understand that in America, the use of the "N" word is a sensitive matter due to the long history concerning racism, but on the other hand you can't have freedom of speech ( and generally freedom of expression) with boundaries. But even then, if there are to be rules, they should be applied to everyone without exception.