Slave Jim or N-word Jim?
I really like Tayari Jone's blog She is the author of Leaving Atlanta and the forthcoming Silver Girl Here is something she wrote recently for an op-ed piece--anyone care to comment: Opinion: Scrubbing 'Huck Finn,' and Our History Jan 5, 2011 – 4:40 PM Tayari Jones Special to AOL News I, for one, have never endorsed the common use of the phrase "N-word" to replace the offensive racial epithet. For one, it reduces otherwise intelligent conversations about race to something that resembles the way adults spell out hot-button words so that they glide over the heads of innocent children. The recent scrubbing of the word from "Huckleberry Finn" in NewSouth's edition of Mark Twain's classic, replacing it with "slave," seems to be the next logical step in the well-intentioned effort to rid American English of problematic terms. Amazon.com "Huckleberry Finn" explores racism and friendship in ...