User talk:Sfiller

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[edit] Paine

Paine is the first one to use the term "Nigger Jim," in a literary context.

Seeing as how critic Russell Baker was born in 1925, a year after Paine's last biography of Twain came out, to use the phrase, "Baker's basis for attributing "Nigger Jim" as an epithet to Twain is unknown," is a falsity. Whether Baker directly read Twain's biography or not (though the fact that he is a critic/columnist indicates he would have at some point), his writing still took place long after the book came out which means he either took the phrase from Paine or from another critic who took it from Paine. His basis is not, therefore, "unknown."

Also, Wikipedia is a site which tries to be encyclopedic, yet a listing of where the words "Nigger," and "Jim," are together a) constitutes original research on your part which is a Wiki no-no (the research being the fact that though you and I can see where he did not put the terms together, no accredited professional has done so in one paper) and b) combined with the listing of critics such as Mailer and Fiedler, but not every critic who's ever used the term comes off as biased against those prominent writers, and reads more like (and this is not an ACCUSation, only an OBSERVation) an angry African-American person breaking the text down to educate ignorant "whitey."

Gnrlotto 06:52, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey Stu

Lots of changes to Vincent Chin, lots more to come. You might want to add some references to your dad's article.MMetro (talk) 13:54, 10 May 2008 (UTC)