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Schools continue to grapple with 'Huckleberry Finn'
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 12/11/15 | Justine McDaniel

Posted on 12/11/2015 7:32:03 PM PST by markomalley

After The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1885, the book was boycotted in some places in the United States for portraying friendship between a black man and a white boy.

"In its time, it was derided and censored," said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, deputy director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, which tracks challenges to books.

Today, Mark Twain's classic - about a boy who flees his abusive father and travels down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave - is still sometimes challenged in American schools, but for nearly the opposite reason: its liberal use of the N-word and perceived racist portrayals of black characters.

This week, a Montgomery County school removed Huckleberry Finn from its curriculum after a group of students said the book made them uncomfortable.

(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.philly.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 1885; 1stamendment; banned; blackkk; bookburnings; books; education; freespeech; huckfinn; huckleberryfinn; imherehuckleberry; marktwain; pc; pennsylvania; safeplace; samuelclemens; waronfreespeech
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To: Jeff Chandler

Same here.


41 posted on 12/11/2015 8:45:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Obama says, the Second Amendment is the greatest recruiting tool that ISIS has.)
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To: Mears

That makes too much sense!!!


42 posted on 12/11/2015 8:46:59 PM PST by Nea Wood
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To: markomalley

Adults haven’t been in charge of the education system in this country for almost 5 decades.

A classic like Huck Finn will be read by all of my kids.


43 posted on 12/11/2015 8:48:34 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: eyedigress

Savage called it a mental disease, but I say it’s just as much a divorce from reality.

Facts and Truth are words that inflict pain on libs. Like garlic on a vampire.


44 posted on 12/11/2015 8:50:11 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: markomalley

KJB.....Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.


45 posted on 12/11/2015 8:51:34 PM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who passing refuse the. news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: fuzzthatwuz

YouTube has a washed out copy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLOqJBw62EM


46 posted on 12/11/2015 9:07:09 PM PST by windcliff
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To: markomalley
Niggardly! Niggardly! Niggardly!

There. I said it.

47 posted on 12/11/2015 9:12:12 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: fuzzthatwuz

I buy old text books .. math...literature..etc. for that reason..


48 posted on 12/11/2015 9:13:18 PM PST by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: eyedigress

My safe space was apparently 1950s America. Which is 20 years before I was born.


49 posted on 12/11/2015 9:26:34 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: markomalley

I read Fin in High School as well as Tom Sawyer. I don’t call people Ni@@ers even though I had read the word. It is rude.

I do however realize that customs were certainly different 175 years ago. Hell at the time Poor Jim was Ms Watson’s House Slaves.


50 posted on 12/11/2015 9:30:35 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Slyfox

Don’t you see? Progressives want to help the negro by erasing the history of what happened to them. Now you understand, right? Because it helps them, doesn’t it?

Wait, wut?


51 posted on 12/11/2015 9:30:43 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Kozy
Here are ten great American novels that students should read; Moby Dick, Read it!

the great American novel ever written, my favorite the ultimate struggle of good and evil; East of Eden; Didn't read it.

Catcher in the Rye, Don't care to read it.

Huckleberry Finn; Read it.

Scarlet Letter; Great Gatsby; Grapes of Wrath, Old Man and the Sea, Catch-22, To Kill a Mockingbird.Read it. Read it. Read it. Read it. Read it. Read it.

Some others are Gone with the Wind No, On the Road Read it. (Glad I did!), Uncle Tom's Cabin No, All the Kings Men No, Red Badge of Courage. Read it.

Read and learn what was happening in America and how we were formed. The good, the bad and the ugly. Saw it! First run! At The Strand in Summit, NJ.

52 posted on 12/11/2015 9:49:33 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: ro_dreaming

Funny you should say safe “space” instead of safe “place”. I conclude you must be a space alien of some kind. But, you know, I guess the 1950’s are my safe space, or place, since that decade comprises my earliest memories, me having been born in 1949, and many they are. These memories are definitely a “home base” to which one reflexively returns.


53 posted on 12/11/2015 10:12:33 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: uncitizen

I’m curious too. Astronomical I would think.


54 posted on 12/11/2015 10:43:29 PM PST by Nationale7
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To: kearnyirish2

Islam has has played a role in this country from the beginning.


55 posted on 12/11/2015 10:49:28 PM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Dumbasses. It’s not that you learn from them, but you learn so much more when you go to teach a subject.


56 posted on 12/11/2015 10:50:32 PM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: Kozy

Excellent reading list. I believe we read all those books in the 1960’s education.


57 posted on 12/11/2015 11:22:34 PM PST by healy61
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To: markomalley

Padlock the government education asylums, take a few of the trillions of dollars saved. and buy every kid a copy of Huck Finn.

Overall, they’d end up more edumacated.


58 posted on 12/11/2015 11:35:43 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Democrats and the GOP. They love our enemies, and hate you and me)
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To: markomalley

Anyone sending their kid(s) to the government to be “educated” is an unfit parent.. Period!!


59 posted on 12/11/2015 11:43:11 PM PST by Original Lurker
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To: Kozy

Killing cops is in every song? Which ones? I am no expert on current hits, but I haven’t heard about a song about killing cops in over 20 years.


60 posted on 12/12/2015 12:09:17 AM PST by nickcarraway
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