In a current events class I take at Pierce College in Woodland Hills California (now conducted through Zoom) I was reprimanded for saying N-word Jim while talking about the canceling of some Dr. Seuss books. The instructor said do not use that word again in my class. I was trying to give my opinion about the use of the word in fiction.
TCM (Turner Classic Movies) is looking to reframe classic films that, by today’s standards, are considered “troubling” and “problematic” like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Gone with the Wind, and Psycho.
Dr. Seuss Enterprises is pulling six of the author’s books, saying they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.” Smerconish on CNN showed some of the pictures. It isn’t the dialog that is objectionable.
What does Mark Twain’s novel about a white boy’s friendship with a runaway slave tell us about race in American literature? Benjamin Markovits revisits The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the light of recent tensions.
In the movie series Centennial that I saw years ago, the shocking images of Indian massacres remains burned into my mind forever. It was likely a true story but one that Americans don’t want to see. Over 20 hours of gore and hate. The movie is rarely shown and not on major television networks.
It seems to me we as a society don’t to confront our past. Don’t remind us about he treatment of native Americans and don’t remind us that we locked Americans of Japanese ancestors in concentration camps. That is what is causing the current war.
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