Removing "N" Word from Huckleberry Finn is More Southern Revisionism Gone Wild Not Political Correctness

Related: Linguist John McWhorter: Sanitizing Huckleberry Finn Insults Black PeopleI just read about the exceptional foolishness of a misguided southern publisher. At CNN, a Mark Twain biographer, Ron Powers, calls NewSouth Books' decision to strip the word "nigger" from Mark Twain's classic Huckleberry Finn, "vapid, smiley-faced effrontery ... (that) corrodes the foundations of respect for

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