Huck Finn and the N' word on 60 minutes

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Overtime editor Ann Silvio has a frank discussion about the N-word with correspondent Byron Pitts, whose report on "60 Minutes" this week is about a new edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" that omits the racial epithet and replaces it with the word "slave."

Watch Byron Pitts' report

Pitts starts the conversation by prompting Silvio to say the N-word and then explains why he decided to say the full word in his "60 Minutes" report. Pitts cites two precedents: Ed Bradley and Andy Rooney both said the word in previous reports on the broadcast. Yes, Andy Rooney.


Pitts also describes his own childhood experiences with the word: at age 10, a white schoolmate's parent hurled the word at him on the sidelines of a football game. It was the first time Pitts was called N-word, but it wouldn't be the last.




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well, what do you think about the publisher removing the word nigger and the 60 minute piece in using the word nigger as part of your lexicon

the full piece on huck finn

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7360250n&tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea.6

 

Nigger being bleeped on TV or not said is a recent phenomena.
Do kids even voluntarily want to read Huck Finn?
If they are taking nigger out of Huck, they should put it in books that don't have it like Harry Potter.

Nigger Harry!

If they did that I just might read those books

 

Harry Potter was really good kid

 

yes! I really didn't like that book. along with the great gabspy, I know why the cage bird sings, anything of Shakespeare.

 

Nigger Harry!

LMAO.

 

I don't like the Great Gatsby either.

Shakespeare is good stuff!

So is Huck Funn and Twain in general.

You didn't like I know why the cage bird sings

:smt009 :smt009

You need to read that over again playa?

 

Shakespeare is a bit predictable. I think because he is english and the country was made by mostly english people, he gets so much credit. There are much better writers than him and this country needs to move past his stuff.

Sam clements/ Mark Twain's life is more interesting than anything he has wrote. From him making comments about how bad some people treated the asians to his anger of a guy who ripped him off. It is just a nice autobiography. It is also too long for me to read though.

I have had quiet a bit of issues with lots of african american(ethnicity) literature. Too often is it a sad story. From the color purple to I know why the cage bird sings. If it is written by a african american woman, I can almost expect there to be man bashing. Same thing with a few white women writers. I just don't like those types of books. I also could not relate at all to her(maya angelou) book.

 

the word should remain in.

 

It's a bio, it didn't move you a bit? I read the follow up bios in succession.

 

no, I could not relate to it. That's the issue that I had.

 

She was mute man!!! You cold bro

 

I was talking about the having a baby before graduating high school and a few other things(questioning my sexuality). I didn't even consider her disability as I had forgotten she was mute.

 

not only having a baby
but the first time she has sex,
with some random "light skin guy" she picks up on the street
being androgynous and sex confused.
being the first black woman trolly car operator
running a prostitution house.

good stuff man, although I might be adding stuff from her next bio. I'll doubt you'll read it.

 

Yea I couldn't relate to that and I think they watered it down for us when I was in school. I don't recall the prostitution house.

 

You don't like the sistah writers?

Well, surely you don't need to read the rest of maya's bios. She disses a BM/WW couple all the while shes married to a white man. She said she doesn't take us seriously.

 

Yea, I heard about that.
It isn't just the sistahs a lot of women writers do the male bashing no matter the color. How can you expect me to like or relate to your book if you continue to bash men over and over? To be fair though, Tyler perry does that crap to.

 

I was just baiting you

 

That was then in the 50's, at least she was honest. I doubt she feels that way now, anyway, her writing is amazing. I don't mind the women going in on the men in writing, if it is good.