Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Daily Show

DAILY SHOW
While watching the video I agreed with the guest on the show that our history is being white washed and the public is afraid to reveal that in the past that we treated the black community horribly by forcing them to be slaves. The "N" word is a term that has brought down that black community for years and to remove it from a book, although it is a bad word to the public eye, shouldn't be removed. I agree with the guest because its not the word that is truly bad, its the context of how its used. The book it is presented in is one of the greatest pieces of literature published. Mark Twain used the word to put in the minds of the public that they shouldn't judge by the contents of their skin but by the fact that they are humans just like us and deserve recognition. It's written in our constitution and always will be there because it is our history. The reason why we study history is so that we prevent the bad from happening again. It was a dark era in our history but it was 300 years ago and we as a nation now are stronger and are more accepting.

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