Nigga please!

[fj1200]

I think he used it as a man of his time. The stories are about the main characters, not the peripheral ones. Jim was a dumbass. Also a product of his time. I loved the character though. You could have made him purple for all I cared.

What color was Lenny in "Of Mice and Men"? Looked pretty damned Wonderbread white to me.

And which leftwingnut socialist President praised "The Birth of a Nation"? The most racist film ever created.

I prefer to look at people in the times they lived in rather than judge them by today's rules.

That's what 'dem libs do. :spittoon: Case in point Woodrow Wilson and Princeton. And was WW the answer to your question?

[Gunny]

That's what 'dem libs do. :spittoon: Case in point Woodrow Wilson and Princeton. And was WW the answer to your question?

That would be him.

[Black Diamond]

No. And I was thinking about just that very example. Vernacular of the day. Do you think he used it to denote racism or used it in a derogatory manner?


https://www.theguardian.com/books/bo...d-unacceptable

No i don't think he did. And i think changing the word from nigger to slave ruins the book

[Gunny]

No i don't think he did. And i think changing the word from nigger to slave ruins the book

But what does it really matter? If he was slave when slaves were legal, who cares? Look at the stuff we believe in now. Global warming is man-made. Wait until our decedents get done making fun of us for THAT. Hillary's not a criminal. I mean the list goes on and on.

[fj1200]

No i don't think he did. And i think changing the word from nigger to slave ruins the book

True. History is history.

[Gunny]

True. History is history.

I'm not sure what happened. I read Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer in the first grade. I don't even remember what Tom Sawyer was about. I can tell neither book made me racist against blacks. Blacks made me not like them by their behavior, not mine. And I mean as a general group. As individuals I've had black friends all my life.

Changing the words in a book that is a historical look into what people were thinking at the time is a crime, IMO. I love history but you have to take it in context. Most do not. They want to judge the past by today's rules because it suits their agendas.

And I got a real eye-opener for you peeps ... we Southerners did not and do not call blacks niggers. I never have, nor have I been around anyone from the South that did. The people I was around that did were from the upper Midwest.

[DLT]

This world is full of sanctimonious people and their sickening arrogance so often knows no bounds.
As full members in the "lets appease everyffing body club" , they walk in circles trying to appear as sages imparting infinite wisdom to the ignorant masses!
I see them as jackasses, all of which reside on the left side of the fence, as no true conservative worships at the massive and cowardly, appeasement altar IMHO..-TYR

Well stated. I concur.