{"id":24396,"date":"2018-02-15T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=24396"},"modified":"2018-02-15T15:54:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T20:54:46","slug":"24396","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=24396","title":{"rendered":"Be advised, I spell out the “N” word in the following column – four times!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t worry. I’m sure the defenders of Harper Lee and Mark Twain won’t mind.<\/p>\n

Oh, and the Reader found or made up this cool graphic for the column I wrote: Kicking the \u201cN\u201d word out of ISD 709<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nONE LONG FOOTNOTE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the second time in the last couple of weeks Linda Grover (a fellow columnist) tackles the same subject I have. Her’s is a more measured response<\/a> whereas mine is a pissed off reaction to some national finger pointing at Duluth’s prissy, parochial, sensitivities as imagined by a bunch of smug, know-it-all elitists.<\/p>\n

The one thing both columns share is an awareness of what its like to have your race made a subject of scorn in a classroom. Linda Grover, a proud Ojibwa Indian, recalls Twain’s “Injun Joe” as being a pretty hard pill to swallow. I’ll bet Sammy would have felt the same way. <\/p>\n

Sammy was an Osage Indian kid in my sixth grade class. After hearing the author of Killers of the Flower Moon<\/a> on NPR last year I have added the book to my reading list. I can’t help but wonder if Sammy’s grandparents were murdered for their mineral rights too. Solving the murders is what made today’s Federal Bureau of Investigation. <\/p>\n

Ironically, today President Trump is trying to kill the FBI<\/a> with the help of a lot of Republican Congressional stooges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t worry. I’m sure the defenders of Harper Lee and Mark Twain won’t mind. Oh, and the Reader found or made up this cool…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24396"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24421,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396\/revisions\/24421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}