Excerpts: …But Gary Hines, president of the local NAACP branch, recently complained to Lakota officials that the play, based on Christie's 1939 mystery novel, was inappropriate for a school production.
Hines said the book's original title and cover illustration used for its initial publishing that year in England was a racial slur toward blacks and included a cover illustration of a black person and a hangman's noose.
"The original title was 'Ten Little (N - - - - - -),' and it is important to say that because that was the actual title," Hines said Monday. Full Story
Well the NAACP isn’t turning into our very own little Anti Defamation League now is it? Hell, they’ve might as well do something with my membership dollars.
Hines said the book's original title and cover illustration used for its initial publishing that year in England was a racial slur toward blacks and included a cover illustration of a black person and a hangman's noose.
"The original title was 'Ten Little (N - - - - - -),' and it is important to say that because that was the actual title," Hines said Monday. Full Story
Well the NAACP isn’t turning into our very own little Anti Defamation League now is it? Hell, they’ve might as well do something with my membership dollars.
