A Mormon Take on the Huck Finn Flap

A Mormon Take on the Huck Finn Flap

I am not one to advocate censorship, but I get the emotion behind those people who are uncomfortable with the use of certain racial words in Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn.”

Imagine if in our modern classrooms, instead of reading Huck Finn, teachers chose Twain’s classic travelogue “Roughing It” instead.

I could laugh with Twain’s writing on polygamy and pioneers in Salt Lake City in the book:

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