In the great American novel ' Huckleberry Finn ' by Mark Twain, about whom Ernest Hemingway ( a favourite author of mine ) said that all American literature starts from it, Aunt Sally asks about a steamboat accident " Was anyone hurt ?"
To which Huck replies " No'm. Only a nigger killed ".
Dalits were attacked in Faridabad recently, and 2 dalit children burnt alive, but most Indians would similarly say ( or at least say in their minds, if not openly ) about th...e incident " Only some dalits were killed ".
Does this not show how backward and inhuman we are ? Does this not vindicate my statement that 90% Indians are idiots, full of casteism, communalism and superstitions ?
It was declared as far back as in 1776 in the American Declaration of Independence ' We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal..."
. But 239 years thereafter most of us stiil believe that a section of our own people, the dalits, are inferior or not even human. Is this not shameful ?
This short satirical essay was published in the Buffalo Express while Mark Twain was co-owner and editor of that newspaper. It appeared unsigned but has been attributed to Mark Twain in Philip S. Foner's Mark Twain: Social Critic (New York: International Publishers, 1958), and is included in Mark Tw…
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