Last month a
Liberty Twp, Ohio school performance of Agatha Christie's play "
And Then there Were None"
was canceled after niggling objections by the NAACP. The
complaint was based on the original title "
Ten Little Indians," which
was itself a replacement for an even earlier original title "
Ten Little
Niggers." In any event, the original title carries potentially
offensive connotations today
that it didn’t on
original publication and that Agatha Christie never intended in the
original. The play itself is oft performed, and completely
unoffensive. It's a shame that today's students often receive
niggardly support from school officials faced down by agenda racists.