Shining City Upon a Hill

In response to What’s different about this newer gentler edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn I think that it is absolutely ridiculous that people would actually go through the hastle of changing a historic document like Huck Finn just because it says the n-word a couple of times.

I feel that this decision by the editor clearly demonstrates what is going on in America nowadays. The underlying racism in everything in American culture is surfacing and what these little notions by some rich white men actually do is trying to "fix" or make up for the hundreds of years which African Americans have been dealing with white intolerance. The fact that there are a few laws in the constitution don't necessarily mean that the racial problems in America are over. No, sir. What the American government has done is simply put a big fat cloth on top of the clearly present racism which is corroding the very foundations on which America was built.

Racism in America is an incendiary topic which has always caused sensational responses. Perhaps the "shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere," as Ronald Reagan one stated, is merely a conglomeration of mere hypocrites whose menial task is only to make themselves feel clean and free of any "immoral" qualities.