THE BOOK OF NEGROES

 

 

ABOUT THAT DISQUIETING WORD "NEGRO" - 

TO AUTHOR LAWRENCE HILL

 

 

I was just listening to your interview on CBC Radio: About that disquieting word, "Negro". 

 

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. ...

 

The Nazis burned books.

 

Now some character in Holland intends to burn your book because you use the word "Negro" in the title:

 

"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."

Heinrich Heine  (German Poet and Writer, 1797-1856)

 

See -  http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/06/about-that-disquieting-word-negro-to.html.