and now is when I realize why Huckleberry Finn was trending...I wish I hadn't seen the reason. Damn censorship, what's next, making a "G" version of the Diary of Anne Frank, or heaven forbid, a "translated" version of Shakespeare? DAMN IT! this makes me so angry.

As a lover of books, of literature, of ART in general, I had hopes that the "censorship happy" people would have the DECENCY to respect ART. If that ART is political, revealing, and (gasp) HISTORICALLY ACCURATE, then WTF are they doing; rewriting history?

COME ON!!!!

the N-word (and as I write that I CRINGE, because if I say it, think it, write it, in a HISTORICAL CONTEXT, this should NEVER be construed as me INSULTING someone in using that word. I would NEVER direct it towards someone, because - unlike the "censorship happy" people - I DID study American History. Heck, make that WORLD HISTORY. Was history always pretty? ummm, NO. Does it make it right that there are people today AND throughout history without ethics, morals, and the least bit of human decency? NO.

But pretending those things never happened, does NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT THEY DID. Was it alright that they DID happen? NO. But if we are going to commit to a better way of living, to a way of living that does NOT exclude people, treat them like shit, or even demean their entire existance, then we MUST remember the past. We MUST own up to our mistakes, and make a CONSCIONABLE effort to CHANGE our way of looking, treating and referring to others.

Erasing (or pretending to) the past does NOT fix anything.

Sure, maybe those of us who are alive now, who read Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and countless others AMAZING pieces of Literature, will die in the next 50+ years, Maybe that will be the end of history as we know it (if the "censorship happy" people win, and they get all great works of art and literature censored.) If this happens, I HOPE that we as of right now make an effort to spread the TRUTH about things we have lived, experiences that we have had, and history lessons that changed our lives. I know I am a better person BECAUSE I've experienced hurtful things, met people who have suffered injustices, and because I had BRAVE teachers who taught me that the TRUTH (be it historical or otherwise) will always set us free.

I love you all,
Pao

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