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Posted 2005-01-12, 09:39 AM
in reply to Demosthenes's post "Should Huck Finn be Banned?"
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Quick link, this says what I was going to say, but better:
http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Class/pol325/Huck.htm
http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Class/pol325/Huck.htm said:
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"The people whom Huck and Jim encounter on the Mississippi" -- Russell Baker wrote in the New York Times in 1982 -- "are drunkards, murderers, bullies, swindlers, lynchers, thieves, liars, frauds, child abusers, numskulls, hypocrites, windbags and traders in human flesh. All are white. The one man of honor in this phantasmagoria is 'Nigger Jim,' as Twain called him to emphasize the irony of a society in which the only true gentleman was held beneath contempt."
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