Comments on: How the phrase “Uncle Tom” was given the negative spin http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/how-the-phrase-uncle-tom-was-given-the-negative-spin Engaging the culture by challenging the status quo Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven J. Kelso Sr. http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/how-the-phrase-uncle-tom-was-given-the-negative-spin/comment-page-1#comment-1379 Steven J. Kelso Sr. Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:27:33 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2005/09/06/how-the-phrase-uncle-tom-was-given-the-negative-spin/#comment-1379 I understand the need to classify traitors, but the use of the character of Uncle Tom really gets my goat. If people really understood the radical (and Christian) nature of the book, the phrase would stand heroic. I wrote of it here: http://made4theinternet.blogspot.com/2004/12/uncle-tom.html. Understanding the true nature of the novel is an eye-opening expierence and I hope that I did it justice. I understand the need to classify traitors, but the use of the character of Uncle Tom really gets my goat. If people really understood the radical (and Christian) nature of the book, the phrase would stand heroic.

I wrote of it here: http://made4theinternet.blogspot.com/2004/12/uncle-tom.html.

Understanding the true nature of the novel is an eye-opening expierence and I hope that I did it justice.

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