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Replacing “nigger” in Huckleberry Finn

Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 by Avitable

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you may be aware that there’s a new controversy brewing when a specific book press decided to replace the word “nigger” with the word “slave” in its new printing of Mark Twain’s “Adventures … Continue reading →

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Nigger

Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 by Avitable

“Adam, you wouldn’t seriously want a black guy to be our President, would you?” That’s an actual quote from one of my uncles a few weeks ago. The thing is, I didn’t grow up in an explicitly racist household. My … Continue reading →

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