i need hard core evidence, documents.
2007-01-22 10:32:58 · 11 answers · asked by mimi j 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
You must have an academic professor on your butt.
Twain wasn't racist, but by today's standards, he would be considered one. In Huckleberry Finn, he used the N word a lot (that's what they were called), but to show the plight of the black man.
Twain was as much a social commentator as a storyteller.
"There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." -Mark Twain
2007-01-22 10:39:54 · answer #1 · answered by nkroadcaptain 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can't even fathom what evidence such as that would be. I don't think that I am a racist, however I don't have any documentation of it. I never received my "non-racist" ID stamp.
Twain however did write about blacks, arabs, europeans, hispanics and lots of other people. Sometimes he portrayed people as fools, other times as heroes, but always as humans. Such honesty was especially rare in Twain's time.
Read Huck Finn and The Innocents Abroad.
2007-01-22 18:41:41 · answer #2 · answered by ahab 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read all his books and find the evidence. You'll not find "official" certificates of non-racism.
Hint : in Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, the title characters are remarkably open when it comes to dealing with blacks.
Anyway, saying that so and so was not a racist is somewhat ludicrous when that person lived in a time when racism was the norm.
It's the same with people accusing H P Lovecraft of being antisemite, or R E Howard of white supremacist tendencies... in the 20s and 30s such an attitude was NORMAL, The worst you can accuse them of is of having been men of their times.
2007-01-22 18:47:02 · answer #3 · answered by Svartalf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The War Prayer by Mark Twain
2007-01-22 18:40:57 · answer #4 · answered by epbr123 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn as a protest against slavery, and used the book to educate people on the evils of slavery.
2007-01-22 18:39:35 · answer #5 · answered by Clown Knows 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL! Good Luck Maybe you should try the smitsonian or the New York Public Library
2007-01-22 18:37:21 · answer #6 · answered by DAKOTA B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can ask the help of some CIA guy, they can provide hardcore evidence for anything, just like proofs of WMD's in Iraq.
2007-01-22 18:39:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why? Are you gonna prosecute him? How do you get "hard core evidence" of something that wasn't? I can't wait to see your answers, and your "proof". God Bless you.
2007-01-22 18:37:19 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try reading his complete works. I'm sure if he was a racist, he would have left some clues.
2007-01-22 18:42:12 · answer #9 · answered by Gnomon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might refer to his sympathetic portrayal of the runaway slave Jim in Huck Finn.
2007-01-22 18:36:58 · answer #10 · answered by frugernity 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋