by Mark Twain
is about to be censored -- all in the name of political correctness. That's right. A brilliant book and literary classic is about to be changed after over a hundred years. This is a tale of adventure involving many unique characters, as told through the eyes of a misfit boy in the deep south. This book was first published in 1894 and made reference to the "N" word and "injun" numerous times.
Now the world wants to do a rewrite and replace those words with "slave" and "Indian" respectively. Oh come on, people!
This is censorship plain and simple! Are we going to rewrite history too?
On last night's episode of the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert said it best in all of his scary truth humor,
"It's great that they took the N-word out of "Huckleberry Finn." Now get to work on "Moby D-Word."
What other exceptions could be made for the rule? Any thing goes: historical documents, books, movies, songs. What else needs to be changed?
Samuel Longhorn Clemens aka: Mark Twain, a renowned author and humorist, probably wouldn't be laughing at this one.
Editing and censoring a classic piece of literature is a horrible act.
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