
#409 - Pride Wars, Dumb Tupac, and POC Jim
The Fifth Column
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The History of the Book Banning
The Board of Education has quietly dropped Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It can still be purchased for school libraries, but it can no longer be bought for wide distribution to pupils as a textbook except in the high schools. Even in these schools, some Negroes have been criticized by some racially offensive. Why were they considered offensive? Well, because there was a guy named person of color Jim. And that's I don't know what I'm not going to allow.
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