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June 20th, 2003, 09:42 AM
Actual Article (http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-bzcol0619,0,7582667.column?coll=ny-news-columnists)
Thin Skins in Great Neck
A history book commissioned by the Great Neck Chamber of Commerce in New York was edited to remove mention of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and Iranian immigrants at the behest of the chamber president who didn’t want anything ‘bad’ to be included, reports Newsday.
The chamber of Great Neck commissioned the Ultimate Book of Great Neck as a history of that Long Island peninsula. But when the author, Marcelle Fischler, came back with sections about slavery and the KKK, chamber president Elliot Rosenblatt ordered them deleted.
“So I said, ‘You wanted a history book,’ and he said, “Well, I didn't want a comprehensive history book. We're not going to say anything bad,’" Fischler recalled Rosenblatt saying.
Fischler added that Rosenblatt also red-penned a section on the Iranians who settled in the area “because the Persians did not support the chamber.”
Thin Skins in Great Neck
A history book commissioned by the Great Neck Chamber of Commerce in New York was edited to remove mention of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and Iranian immigrants at the behest of the chamber president who didn’t want anything ‘bad’ to be included, reports Newsday.
The chamber of Great Neck commissioned the Ultimate Book of Great Neck as a history of that Long Island peninsula. But when the author, Marcelle Fischler, came back with sections about slavery and the KKK, chamber president Elliot Rosenblatt ordered them deleted.
“So I said, ‘You wanted a history book,’ and he said, “Well, I didn't want a comprehensive history book. We're not going to say anything bad,’" Fischler recalled Rosenblatt saying.
Fischler added that Rosenblatt also red-penned a section on the Iranians who settled in the area “because the Persians did not support the chamber.”