Why Books Are Burned

King Obama has declared that the word “Niger” (I have deliberately spelled it correctly to avoid human rights charges) is now persona-non-grata.  As a result, thousands of North American libraries will soon trash their copies of the timeless Mark Twain novel Huckleberry Finn.  These errant tomes will burn.

That in itself is sad, but the black rejection of their homeland is even uglier.  Early American slaves described themselves as nigers because they come from a country called Niger on the Niger River in Africa, or from Nigeria, another African country by a similar name.

Now we are told that we will face a human rights tribunal if we speak of a black as a niger.   I have decided to be offended if anyone refers to me as a Canadian because I was born in Canada.

But I digress.  Words like niger and female and marriage and countless others have taken on new meanings.  Thousands – millions – hundreds of millions of totally innocent books will burn.

But don’t shed a tear for outdated dictionaries that go up in flames.  The Oxford folks have come up with a new word to describe our present environment.  The word is “omnishambles”.

Isn’t it amazing that mystery rhymes with history.