Ancient Buddhist statue taken by Nazi expedition was carved from meteorite
Elmar Buchner of the University of Stuttgart said Thursday that the statue was brought to Germany by a Nazi-backed expedition that set out for Tibet in 1938 in part to trace the origins of the Aryan race — a cornerstone of the Nazis' racist ideology …
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Greece Names Nazi Reparations Panel
ATHENS — The Greek government has appointed a panel to determine whether Germany might still owe Greece money in reparations for Nazi war crimes, a move that indicates the extent to which the shaky coalition government in Athens is trying to appease …
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Haley a Nazi? Democrat not backing down from analogy
The Chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party is refusing to apologize after he compared his state's Republican Gov. Nikki Haley to Adolf Hitler's mistress Eva Braun. Dick Harpootlian, a tart-tongued Columbia attorney known for his off-color and …
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Protracted lawsuit likely to arise from feds' racial profiling allegations …
RALEIGH, N.C. — The release of a federal investigative report that painted a North Carolina sheriff as a racist who routinely violates the civil rights of Latinos and sought to obstruct a federal investigation could mark the beginning of a protracted …
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States' voter ID laws are underlying issue in 2012 presidential race
Tougher state voter registration and identification laws could factor into this year's election as voters divide along racial lines behind President Barack Obama or GOP nominee Mitt Romney in the presidential contest. About 90 percent of African …
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President addresses racial comments
Neither blatant nor subtle acts of bias and racism aimed at an entire group – defined by race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender expression – are acceptable. I encourage each member of the Purdue …
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Bar Review: Salt Dog Slims – a long way from the doghouse
But step forward one athlete who threw the megalomaniac's Aryan supremacy theory out of the window – Jesse Owens of the USA won four gold medals, despite the fact he was black. To this day his name is one of the most recognised in the athletics world …
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Christie's Embrace of Islamo-Fascists
If that is not immediately clear, imagine if Christie had appointed as a judge someone who was an attorney for the Ku Klux Klan, or the Aryan Nations. The analogy is not hyperbole: Remember, the Muslim Brotherhood says of itself that it is dedicated to …
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Review: 'Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery to Hip-Hop'
According to a just-published book, "Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery to Hip-Hop," the answer may well be yes. And that's not necessarily an entirely bad thing, according to authors Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen, both Chicago journalists.
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Biden Much Milder Than FDR's 'Economic Slavery'
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. (FDR, Speech to the Democratic Convention, 1936). Let us put a quick end …
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Delegates from Indian university visit Cayuga Community College
"The college made a strategic decision to establish global partners for the benefit of students, the community and faculty," said Cheryl Lindsay, dean of enrollment and chief international officer at CCC. One of Lindsay's former colleagues is now the …
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CWT LTD : Memorandum Of Understanding For Increased Collaboration At …
CWT Limited ("CWT") wishes to announce that CWT Commodities China Pte Ltd ("CCC"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of its commodity logistics business arm CWT Commodities Pte Ltd, and Jiangsu Golden Fleet International Logistics Industrial Co., Ltd …
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Hungarian lawmaker resigns from anti-Semitic Jobbik Party after revealing …
The Anti-Defamation League describes Jobbik as “openly anti-Semitic.” Szegedi had created a "spiral of lies” in an attempt to conceal his origins, according to a communique published on the Jobbik site. The party's vice president, Elod Novak, therefore …
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Olympics officials accused of anti-Semitism over Munich remembrance
LONDON — At a ceremony Monday to remember 11 Israeli athletes and coaches killed at the 1972 Munich Games, top Olympics' official Jacques Rogge came under sustained attack over the refusal to honor the dead with a minute's silence at the opening …
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Jewish Anti-Semites: Amoz Oz et al
This is a blood libel of the kind one used to expect from Kremlin anti-Semites, not from an Israeli writer. By encouraging the rioters in the alleys and on the roads, Oz's words endangered the "settlers”, pioneers on the front lines of defence, a group …
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Rabbis to Apple: Remove Anti-Semitic App from iTunes
The Conference of European Rabbis on Tuesday called on Apple Inc. to remove an application of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion which is being offered for sale on iTunes. Kol Yisrael radio reported that the application being sold is an Arabic version …
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Rotten Apple? Rabbis Want Apple To Stop Selling Notorious Antisemitic Forgery
Apple swastika logo 1 The Conference of European Rabbis wants Apple to remove an Arabic language version of the notorious antisemitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, from the iTunes store. Apple failed to respond to the request or to …
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Anti-Semitic app
Latest News. Romney, Go Home · Anti-Semitic app · Arizona voting law. Share. Anti-Semitic app. By Ed Zuckerman|8/17/2012 9:49 AM. B'nai B'rith International asked Apple CEO Timothy Cook to remove an anti-Semitic app from Apple's iTunes App Store.
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10 Quotable Lines From Lloyd Banks' 'V6: The Gift' Mixtape (Pg. 3)
… business/Let your number one fan be the witness/It's your number one chance in the benches/You lucky to be my apprentice." — "Protocol". 6. "Hottest nigga in my city/Ain't no way that I could possibly chill/Illest nigga around/That's one hell of a …
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DJ Khaled ft. J. Cole, Big KRIT & Kendrick Lamar “They Ready”
Big K.R.I.T. “I Live This Shit” Following up on their collaboration "Rob Me A Nigga," Alley Boy and Big K.R.I.T. get back together for this new song where they remind "I Live This Shit"… kendricklamarimage-featured. Watch Kendrick Lamar Perform In …
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2 Chainz, <em>Based on a T.R.U. Story</em>
On paper, lines like, “Let me slow it down 'fore I get a ticket/Nigga want a verse from me, it's gon' cost a chicken” (“Crack”) or “Eee-err Eee-err, sound of the bed/Beat it up, beat it up, then I get some head” (“I'm Different”), seem lifeless; with …
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Olympics: learning from Nazi Germany
Sport was not excluded and it was used in the drive to strengthen and purify the "Aryan race". The Nazis introduced the torch relay, a propaganda-infused ritual still going strong today. London Olympics. The Olympics were a perfect fit for the Nazi …
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Paul enters fray for CAB top post, pitted against Dalmiya
Kolkata, Jul 20: Just when Cricket Association of Bengal czar Jagmohan Dalmiya thought it would be a smooth ride to the President's post for the fourth consecutive term, Samar Paul of the Aryan Club today filed his nomination to contest the seasoned …
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, has been critically acclaimed and the subject of much controversy since its publication in 1885. It’s not surprising that Twain’s fearless exploration of racism through the relationship between thirteen-year-old Huckleberry Finn, and Miss Watson’s African-American slave, Jim, was a hotly debated novel.
Though Huckleberry Finn is considered one of the Great American Novels, it continues to cause a stir. The book has been banned across the United States throughout the years, specifically in many southern states, for its use of the word “nigger.” The “n-word” as many prefer to call it in a “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” sort of way, is used in Huckleberry Finnover 200 times. Many school districts in the United States do not allow teachers to assign the book because of that controversial word. A Great American Novel that is kept from a significant number of students because of a word that makes people uncomfortable. A 2011 version of Huckleberry Finn published by a company in Alabama took matters into their own hands and cleaned up the manuscript. As if editing the dirty words out of a movie, the publisher simply substituted the word “nigger” with the word “slave.” (While they were at it, the company also removed another racially offensive word from the text: “Injun.”) The point of this edited version, of course, is to give students who would otherwise not see the book on their school’s reading list a chance to read it. Many educators and parents simply don’t like the idea of their children being around that word. The new version gives those students a chance to experience the story.
Or does it? Are the students who read the revised or “cleaned up” version truly experiencing “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by reading, basically, “The Revised Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?” What is the significance of the word in relation to the book? It’s clear that Twain uses it to help us fully understand the attitude that saturated the old south. Isn’t that the point of an author laying words down on paper? In an effort to tell a story in an honest way, authors chose their words wisely, sometimes agonizing over each one. Are these students being given the chance to fully understand what Mark Twain was trying to communicate? Or are they missing out on an important piece of the puzzle? Is removing this word from the novel the equivalent of removing the French and Indian War from an AP US History course? Furthermore, is the exchange of the word “nigger” for “slave” an honest translation? Is it really as simple as that? And isn’t replacing even one word or changing Twain’s text in any way, a form of censorship?
Another thing to consider is what, if anything, does it say about our society and our educational system? If Mark Twain was shining a light on racism by writing one of our Great American Novels does it make sense to change one word rather
