“Expelling Huck Finn” Precis
In “Expelling Huck Finn,” Nat Hentoff explains that an organization, named as the Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP, is advising they address affliction with the state’s human rights commission to eliminate a stereotypical book from mandatory reading lists and argue against tax dollars supporting such a work. Hentoff examines multiple cases, one in which an African American parent and teacher tried to have the book removed from such a list, and others that involved a compromise of allowing someone to express their frustration and giving an option of freedom of speech. He expands on various instances where someone has tried to censor Huckleberry Finn in order to avoid causing racist offense. Hentoff, an