Huck Finn & Othello

Ron Powers has just written an article called: “PC Insult To A Mark Twain Classic.”

Knew this was coming.  Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t say it, don’t read it.  NewSouth Books–Dumber Than A Box Of Rocks!

Obama enters…Iago (Gibbs?) exits…Obama speaks:

“O now, forever

Farewell the Nation’s Jim

Farewell the Critical Thought!

Farewell the N word and R word and all words

That have made Affirmative Action’s virtue!

O, Farewell!

Farewell to those who speak

The people’s language with rude throats!

And Farewell, O, Farewell to all

That has been written

Of our Nation’s inglorious past!

Farewell!

Haply for I am black

I can command those Legions

Who will give the Kiss of Death

To past and present and future

Works of those who would(st)

Scorn the tranquil mind of content,

Betray the course that I as a toad

Have loved not wisely but too well

For the sake of Ambition

And of Conquest and of Plunder!

Farewell to the Mark Twains

And Richard Wrights and James Baldwins

And all who would(st) call me Moor

Call me Slave, hurl alienations

Before a Nation now corrected

Through the pomp and pomposity

Of Glorious War upon

Its own blackened History

That puts forever out the Light of Doubt,

Never to be turned on again!

Hope and Change?

Nay.  Farewell!

Obama’s occupation’s gone!

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt.