And this is a historically censored book. They never stopped.

In 1976 I was a high school student reading Mein Kampf in AP history class. I was never discouraged and my AP history teacher met with me regularly as I began to find merit in some ideas. This teacher guided me, never dismissed my queries and provided additional material to read. She was helping me to build critical thinking. She was helping me to understand alternative arguments. She was building on the belief that rational thought would guide me. She suggested additional reading including Lord of the Flies and George Orwell's 1984. This teacher, without saying so, was helping me discover the dangers of identity politics. I'm 60 now. It's nice how her memory, her sound instruction and her critical thinking comes to mind. I graduated in 1977, the year that Cat Stevens converted to Islam. He was removed from the airwaves in 1989 (Salman Rushdie comments) and blacklisted from the music industry. I was not in favor. I began to read the Qu'ran. Following 9/11 he was placed on a no fly list, I agreed. Removing books, music, art opinions, etc is an assault on freedom of speech.

This brings up an interesting question that might be worth discussing...

I think Huckleberry Finn absolutely should be read by high school kids. And I don't believe any book, no matter how vile, should actually be banned by law.

But is it ever appropriate to ban some books from high school reading lists, even if they aren't banned to the general public? Can the local government, who runs the local schools, tell teachers they cannot add certain awful books to the curriculum?

I'll give the most extreme examples I can think of... what if some gross, 60 year old man teacher wanted his class of 15 year olds to read 50 Shades of Grey?

Or would you be ok with your punk rocker teenager reading Mein Kampf? Is he mature enough to grasp the insidiousness of that book?

Where do you draw the line? Or do you draw one at all?

I think it's important to know how far we've come regarding racism and sensibilities. You can only argue that we're a racist country if you remove everything to compare it to.

Here's a Tom and Jerry clip from the 50s and reedited in order to meet some person's sense of sensibility, to show a white person in the 60s.

History class doesn't have to be boring. But if you remove all of the color it becomes that. And just remember - "...en de Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nuthin'." - Uncle Remus

NJ lawmakers must be brain dead

Zombified, scorched earth

Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer are both American classics written by a great humorist

Its all so absurd, ignorance breeding more ignorance.

In fairness, banning a book is a great way to get teens and kids to read it. I'm personally compelled to read Harry Potter anytime someone tries to claim it teaches witch craft. Sadly the instructions in the series are incomplete at best for creating a Philosopher's Stone.

Insane! I saw where the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder are also going to get banned. This is another ploy that Hitler did. Burn any literature he didn't agree with. Only the literature Hilter chose was made available to his country. That is a form of mind control. Only select information, nothing with opposing ideas. Sanitizing history, controlling the media, only select propaganda allowed. SOCIALISM play book.