Right after the request of Mark Twain to have his autobiography republished last year, exactly 100 years after his death......
I can see both sides on why the book is offensive to many people....
To read the book to students is probably a nightmare for a lot of teachers but they probably can choose not to read it out loud...(If they are forced to read it out loud, that is a whole other matter)
The hypocrites that the human race are as a whole, allow for violence to be readily available on any given TV show and without much thought to its impact on society....
Instead, in the year 2011, Auburn University is going to change a literary classic without any opinions or votes from the people of the US, or the world...
Sure people can argue that when a film is censored for TV if it has inappropriate language, sex and/or nudity in it, this isn't much different....
I deplore watching censored versions of films filled with commercials interrupting the film's flow and containing bad over dubbing, e.g. "Yipee Ki Yay MISTER FALCON!"
The word slave, as a replacement, seems even more offensive now, to me....
Huck wouldn't have referred to Jim as a slave, when conversing with him, it just isn't the way Huck speaks, plain and simple!
In the end, great art suffers because of how society has acted as a whole...
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