Huck Finn Book Banning Project. Why It Should Be Banned From Public School Curriculum.
Book Banning Project
'Huck Finn' a masterpiece -- or an insult
Renton High revisits teaching of book after objections raised
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
By GREGORY ROBERTS
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/149979_huck26.html
'It's not just a word'
"Huckleberry Finn," first published in 1885, chronicles the journey of a rough-hewn, 13-year-old white boy and a runaway slave down the Mississippi River on a raft through the antebellum South. What's wrong with the book, Clark, Phair and numerous other critics have said, is its use of the notorious "n" word -- not once, not a few times, but more than 200 times.
"It's not just a word," said Clark, the guardian for her granddaughter. Both are African American.
"It carries with it the blood of our ancestors. They were called this word while they were lynched; they were called this word while they were hung from the big magnolia tree.
"That word, in the history of America, has always been......
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