You can ban, you can burn all the Mark Twain books. You can lie about history but you can't CHANGE history. I was in the south in the 40's and 50's, the book portrays the way they talked, the way they acted. They were called niggers by everyone, INCLUDING THEMSELVES and still are........

The school’s principal says the book's use of racial slurs was "challenging" for some students, who felt the school was not being inclusive.     Dec 12, 2015        



UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1800: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 to 1910, known by pen name Mark Twain, an American humorist, satirist, writer and lecturer. Photograph taken in his old age (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

 

A suburban Philadelphia school is removing "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" from its 11th grade curriculum, saying the language and portrayal of blacks makes students uncomfortable.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Friends' Central School decided the "community costs'' of reading Mark Twain's 1885 classic outweigh the literary benefits.

Art Hall, principal of the school in Wynnewood, says the book's use of racial slurs was "challenging for some students, who felt the school was not being inclusive."

The school is guided by a Quaker philosophy.

The book about manners, race and rebellion in pre-Civil War has inspired controversy since its release 130 years ago. In 2011 an Alabama publisher replaced the offending word with "slave."

A Twain biographer has called book's slur the "ultimate teachable moment in American literature."

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