A publisher, New South Books, thinks they can write racism out of history by revising the words in Mark Twain’s book “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
This prejudice was evident through two wars, one during the war in the Philippines and the other during our lives, the Vietnam war. The prejudices exhibited toward the veterans when they came home from both wars was the same; society shunned them for the misfortune of being in a dirty war not of their making. Not only is Mark Twain receiving criticism today, he received plenty of criticism when he was out spoken against that war, when he said “my country right or wrong”.
Benjamin Franklin said one of the best friends you can have is someone who points out your faults to you. Mark Twain was an expert at pointing out faults in human nature and a country. This is precisely why it’s so ironic that Mark Twain is the one who is being rewritten.
The Thought Police are here. Big Brother is Big Business not Big Government. That’s why a publisher thinks that by revising the words, they can write prejudice out of people. But rather than admit American history had faults, Big Brother just changes the words and poof, all evidence is gone. The future will not have an accurate time line of events. You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.
Pretending prejudices didn’t exist is delusional. Changing words doesn’t change history, prejudice will always exist, especially when it’s the type which is taught to others who don’t know better.
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