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Issue #82    /    The Monthly Journal of the American Hacker    /    February 2011

"All history and honest observation will show that the Red Man is a skulking coward and a windy braggart, who strikes without warning - usually from an ambush or under cover of night, and nearly always bringing a force of about five or six to one against his enemy; kills helpless women and little children, and massacres the men in their beds; and then brags about it as long as he lives, and his son and his grandson and great-grandson after him glorify it among the 'heroic deeds of their ancestors.'  A regiment of Fenians will fill the whole world with the noise of it when they are getting ready invade Canada; but when the Red Man declares war, the first intimation his friend the white man whom he supped with at twilight has of it, is when the war-whoop rings in his ears and tomahawk sinks into his brain..."

--- Quote from The Noble Red Man, by Mark Twain.  There has recently been talk of removing the words "nigger" and "Indian" from some of Mark Twain's books in our public schools.  Some have even said Mark Twain himself would have supported this overt act of censorship.  Somehow I doubt it...

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