[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I read the book and thought there was way too many microaggressions in it, so I had no recourse but to immediately retreat to my safe spot and cower in a fetal position until I sufficiently recovered.

[stevem]

These schools need to sponsor some book burnings.

[kearnyirish2]

Let them delete this history; in a few years people will deny that slavery existed. Don’t want “Redskins” as a football team? In a few years we’ll just pretend the Europeans landed on an unpopulated continent.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Friends Central School removed the Mark Twain classic from the 11th-grade American literature class last week after students said it made them feel uncomfortable"

I'm sure the special snowflakes have NEVER listened to rap music their entire life.

[Tupelo]

For most of my adult life, I have been taught and retaught, “Those that do not read history are doomed to repeat it”.

I can only wonder what the future holds for those that attempt to change history.

But wait, Victors have been doing that for thousands of years.

OK. Same old. Same old. Ground Hog day, again and again.

[Arm_Bears]

I thought it was the TEA Party and racist conservatives that were all about banning books.

At least that's what the Left tells us, ad nauseum.

[iowamark]

First, this is a private Quaker school. They can set their own curriculum. Second, there are many, many other classic works of American literature that they can read.

[Daffynition]

**Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.**

~ Mark Twain

[struggle]

I teach American Lit, and I tell my student that because of the message of the story, it would actually be wrong to not be honest about all the n-words in the story.

[Gen.Blather]

On the other hand, banning a book ensures they will read it. For most it will be the only book they read.

[moovova]

“First, they came for Huckleberry Finn, and I said nothing.”

“Then they came for the Holy Bible, and I said...”

[ThePatriotsFlag]

So go buy the book and give it to your kids for Christmas...screw the “ban.”

[CPOSharky]

...overuse of the N-word.

Too bad that doesn't apply in a whole bunch of other areas.

[onyx]

Yes, it's just awful and so insensitive that an American literary classic would make these precious students feel uncomfortable, so of course, they must be sheltered from reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Perhaps they can watch the movie instead?

[nathanbedford]

Here is a reply filed last May:

Twain was certainly an iconoclast and rebel his entire life.

He was a deserter from service in the Confederate militia in the Civil War and fled to the far West. Even his earliest writings reflect an ability to see the mirror image of life. I think Twain was as he suggests a pessimist. Certainly, personal tragedies such as the death of his child deepened his darkest perceptions.

If one looks at Huckleberry Finn which is a searing indictment of slavery, its brilliance lies partly in the fact that Twain works his magic by writing the mirror image of his intended result. For example, Huck Finn's decision that he will commit a mortal sin and go to hell by being a friend to "Nigger Jim" leaves the reader to reverse the logic and in doing so penetrate the veil of rationalization which had sustained slavery and Jim Crow.

Huckleberry Finn is perhaps the great American novel as Hemmingway said (I agree) because Twain makes the reader really part of the process of grappling with America's original sin but he gives the devil every advantage yet still succeeds in making all of us believers.

The irony of modern race baiters agitating to remove Huckleberry Finn from libraries because it contains the word "Nigger" is very sad.

[LostPassword]

Time to shut down my city's transit system

According to these people the community costs of reading this book riding the bus or train outweigh the benefits

[Lee'sGhost]

We will know that America is returning to greatness when people are allowed to speak words again. Saying “nigger” in the context of a relevant discussion...such as its use in a novel or a Quintin Tarantino movie...should not be prohibited. The article should just go ahead and use the word as it is Germain to the discussion. Frowning upon its use in general conversation or as a insult can still be prohibited by social dictate, but banning the word outright is the height of stupidity, as demonstrated by the school’s action.

If I can be assaulted by a megabase rendition of a rap with the lyrics “nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger,” (I’m not making this up) while pumping gas into my truck, then arguing that the word should never be used is total BS.

[fruser1]

And the lefties still get away w/ascribing Nazis to the right.

[BBB333]

Nigger, by Dick Gregory.

It’s a book. $7.99 in paperback.

http://www.amazon.com/Nigger-Dick-Gregory/dp/0671735608/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450185459&sr=8-1&keywords=nigger+dick+gregory

[Morgana]

yet “heather has two mommies” is okay

[Blue Collar Christian]

But you didn’t get any counseling?