world-renowned, who loves mark twain ask he wants more and he wants more people reading twain is saying if we can get the this book in the hands of children in a way that will open up the doors for people to learn from the lessons of mark twain, then why shouldn t we do that? and they re going to be very specific with a process that actually says, this is what has happened. and then when you re in high school or when you re in a more advanced class, you know, you read the original. i see this as, like, a movie that s edited for television or the radio version of a song. this is opening up mark twain and the history and lessons megyn: how about it, bishop? this professor who does love mark twain says he was reading it aloud, and people were get canning repulsed, and it got banned, and this is his solution. well, see, i don t agree with that. i think some of the young people don t really believe that jim crow actually happened. they have no sense of history. just because we have a
pc gone too far, it wasn t that mark twain was a racist, it was that he was writing about a racist society. and the evolution of a character, he can finn in be particular huck finn who starts out racist himself and then stops and comes through it. and you say what? i say that it really is a good book the way it s written. i think we ve gone too far. this year politically we re going to be calling all kind of names at one another, and i think we re getting too sensitive. as a black person, i want the next generation to understand what it was like to live back then. and i was also an english major, so this is one of the great books of our literature that is really being stripped of an important aspect of tolerance. after all, huck finn had a father/son relationship with a black man named jim, and over the course of the book it talks about how people evolve and they grow in their attitude towards