‘Daily Show’: Jim Gets a Promotion in the New ‘Huck Finn’

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Once we start taking offensive yet instructive language such as nigger out of literature, as is the case with Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” what’s next? Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore peers unflinchingly into a grim future of censored classics in this racially charged romp from Tuesday’s “Daily Show.” —KA

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By prgill, January 13, 2011 at 6:20 am Link to this comment

Unbelievable that the Republicans should have read the constitution into ‘the public record’ (The Congressional Record), with acknowledging the three-fifths compromise. Can that be verified?

Thanks for the humourous look at ourselves.

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