With all due respect Dicho, bullshit.

Huckleberry Finn continues to be an extremely controversial book in the African American community, and I have never found them to be people "who cannot read and know nothing of our history."

Quite the contrary. They read very well, and have no trouble understanding the racial contexts of the book. Which is why many of them object to it being required reading in the public school curriculum.

As long as something just as good exists which can be substituted, and it does, there is no reason not to drop the book.

Way too many white people suddenly get sentimentally attached to these books, but only when communities of color request they be dropped from the curriculum, and better books put in.

Having worked in the public school system libraries most of my adult life, I can tell you there are plenty of books that can be substituted for "Huckleberry Finn" in the curriculum. Notice I didn't say take the books out of the libraries--I just said it is easy enough to find excellent additions to the curriculum, if people choose to negotiate rationally, rather than immediately take the suggestion that better books should be used. And believe me, the school districts could be choosing MUCH better books for the curriculum, but they go with the same old, same old because that way, they don't have to challenge themselves and their constituencies by looking too closely at what they are teaching.