ChuckSpears
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FTFY
if I ever impregnate someone again a paternity test will be mandatory.
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"The people whom Huck and Jim encounter on the Mississippi are drunkards, murderers, bullies, swindlers, lynchers, thieves, liars, mows, frauds, child abusers, numbskulls, hypocrites, windbags and traders in human flesh. All are white. The one man of honor in this phantasmagoria is 'Nigger Jim,' as Twain called him to emphasize the irony of a society in which the only true gentleman was held beneath contempt."
In 1998 Judge Stephen Reinhardt, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, rejected a lawsuit by an African American parent, who is also a teacher, asking that "Huckleberry Finn" be removed from mandatory reading lists in the Phoenix, Ariz., schools.
"Words can hurt, particularly racist epithets," Reinhardt wrote, "but a necessary component of any education is learning to think critically about offensive ideas. Without that ability, one can do little to respond to them." Part of learning to think critically about offensive speech is to understand the context in which it is used.
source: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff112999.asp
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get yourself checked for STDs
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