[freebilly]

Wonder if any high school in America now reads Huck Finn. Naturally, it can no longer be considered a classic piece of American literature because the "N" word is used, and Huck SMOKES!

[muawiyah]

When the PC types remove the "N-word" from Huck, and substitute "African-Americans" it changes the speech of the viciously racist slave dealing Southerners and they begin to seem like nice, normal people.

That's certainly not what Mark Twain intended.

[Calvin Locke]

Gee, I remember reading a ghost story where the guy used faggots to cook his breakfast.

[Future Snake Eater]

Actually, my junior year AP English class had Huck Finn as one of the books we had to read. We even wrote an argumentative essay taking on the fact that some people wanted it banned due to it's "racial insensitivities."

Regarding this article, how much longer before we start holding book-burning ceremonies? Surely the elimination of religious, ethnic, and sexual references would be applauded by all...

[Mark Turbo]

I read Huckleberry Finn in English class my junior year of high school (1988-1989).

Naturally, it can no longer be considered a classic piece of American literature because the "N" word is used, and Huck SMOKES!

Huck played hooky from school too.