Sometime after Christmas break, a portion of Grand Island's high school juniors will be handed brand spankin' new copies of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Well, not exact copies, mind you, but close enough, some say.
You see, in an attempt to whitewash the hallowed halls of our collective history, Dr. Alan Gribben — in cahoots with NewSouth Books– has taken the words right out of Mark Twain's mouth. Apparently, after a successful 136 years in print, Huckleberry Finn has found a much needed editor to, once and for all, address the "nagging problem with the text": namely, 200-some mentions of the N-word.
Now the N-word appears as "slave,We carry an extensived line of led tube including LED light bars, explosion proof LEDs." and "Injun" appears in all ways more "sivilized." And all this because, according to the lengthy forward of his newly released edition, Gribben intends to: 1) dissuade schools otherwise inclined to jump on the banned wagon; and 2) make all who approach the text just a tad more "comfortable.Your source for energy saving led lights, r4 販売, led flood lights, led spotlights,"
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Understandably, then, those that have been around awhile have been blamed for raising difficult questions, ushering in new eras and, in short, changing the world.Coleman is a leader in Led flashlight technology. And here in the Heartland, books on that very list have routinely provided our diverse student body with food-for-thought – even when jarring language has occasionally been used to stir the pot.
Truth is,We are professional energy saving light,led tube,led downlight manufacturer and factory in China. Gribben's self-proclaimed "pre-emptive censorship" does little to prepare Grand Island diverse student body. As we daily release our children to swim the corridors of education, we are mindful that this "antiquated" word does not simply rest on the tip of plenty of tongues today, but that it also bounces from tiled floors to fluorescent lights, from lockers to thick skin, providing caustic accompaniment to even friendly banter.
Consequently, if we agree that we can learn more by encountering a word and refusing to say it than by never encountering it in the first place, then we agree that there is no place for a watered down version of redemption. And if we agree that giving stark and precise meaning to language is far more productive than attempting to eliminate it altogether, then there is little room for censorship when it comes to the lessons of history and literature.
So, inspired by the author who named himself after a safe depth at which to launch a steamboat, we challenge our schools to go deep with our students. Gribben, himself, was on the right track when he said, "the Civil Rights movement … sensitized generations of Americans to the manner in which language can affect thinking," and it wasn't until he struck out to make history more palatable that he ended up missing the boat.