Roger Ebert courtesy Rebert at en.wikipedia (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
The new edition of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn no longer contains the N-word.
Film critic Roger Ebert took exception with the manicuring of a classic to fit this year’s fashions, tweeting yesterday, “I’d rather be called a N—- than a slave.”
Well, in the following hours Ebert got a taste of the critic’s poison pen from other twitters, then decided this wasn’t the river he wished to ride his last raft on. “I’ll never be called a N—– *or* a Slave,” he wrote. “So I should have shut the **** up.”
Ebert was slow to realize that even a lifetime of liberal positions and sentiments (and being married to African-American Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert) doesn’t protect you from an idea whose time has come.
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