the original title was the autobiography of huck finn. he changed it several times. it's just amazing to me. it gives me a chance as someone from contemporary times to place literally myself in the body of a young man who is my age even though his background and experience is totally different than mine. okay? this is also the cover of tom sawyer from the illustrated comic series. and this one here it, "happy to be nappy" relates to our conversation about censorship and images and symbolism correlating to race. happy to be nappy, bell hooks. love her work. the book is about a young girl who wonders in the glories of the wonders of her hair. this goes beyond the certain shock jock who used the word nappy in a very negative term and got fired and got rehired by somebody else. in this particular instance, the woman who brought this to her classroom, a school each in new york, remember discussing this, school teacher who is white and god knows we have to mention that for the sake of the attorney brought it to her mostly urban students and said this is a book i want you t

if you listen to it on tape or you hear an actor do the part of huck finn, it's just amazing. now we make fun of everybody. if somebody speaks with a at's hilarious. this is one of the first times where it was supposed because the original title was the autobiography of huck finn. he changed it several times. it's just amazing to me. it gives me a chance as someone from contemporary times to place literally myself in the body of a young man who is my age even though his background and experience is totally different than mine. okay? this is also the cover of tom sawyer from the illustrated comic series, okay. and this one here it, "happy to be nappy" relates to our conversation about censorship and images and symbolism relating to race, yes? happy to be nappy, bell hooks. love her work. the book is about a young girl

if you listen to it, it's on tape or you hear an actor do the part of huck finn. today we make fun of everybody. this was the first time it was supposedly -- the original title was the autobiography of huck finn. he changed it several times. it's mazing to me. it gives me a chance as someone from contemporary times to place myself in the body of a young man who was my age even though his background and experience is totally different than mine, okay? this is also a cover of tom sawyer from the illustrated comic series. this one here, happy to be nappy is one that we talked about as well. this relates to our conversation about censorship and sensitivity. bell hooks. love her work. the book is about a young girl who glories in the wonders of her hair, okay? this goes above and beyond the incident we know of a certain shock job who used the word nappy in a negative way got fired and rehired by somebody else. somehow he was putting a real racial spin on this term. this particular instance the woman who brought this to her classroom, it was a school teacher in new york

huck finn, how many times did they use it, 19? the idea is that how come we can't use that in our classroom? because it might cause controversy and somebody might suit and somebody might be unhappy. you must be kidding. we as intellectuals, we as academicians, explorers and readers of the literature have a responsibility. for those of you who are discovering the creation of literature, you have a responsibility, do you not? can you create anything you want in the world that you create in literature reflecting history or not and feel comfortable in that creation, or must you precensor yourself to decide that i can't offend anybody so i can't write this thing? first part of the semester, i gave you an assignment about creating a piece of literature. gave you the freedom to write whatever you want. did anybody precensor themselves about topics you can't handle even though i said as far as if i am concerned, everyone in this classroom is an adult. that is your freedom, that is your right. anybody recensor themselves? so everybody wrot