[Ginkasa]

Here's my introductory paragraph. Comment it on anything that seems wrong if you want. Don't if you don't. Mostly I'm just stalling because I have to find quotes to back my opinion up (I can understand that my teacher is required to give us a paper that covers parenthetical citation and quotes and such, but couldn't she pick a better topic to give to us that isn't just us giving our opinion [thus sort of negating the use of quotes since an opinion is an opinion no matter who gives it]), and I don't want to. So....

(erm... Ignore any formatting problems since this is a copy and paste from Word)

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Throughout the country, parents are crying out against the supposed racism present throughout Mark Twain’s famous novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (henceforth referred to as Huck Finn for convenience), and demanding the book be removed from the current school curriculum. These concerned citizens declare that the historically accurate depiction of African Americans and slavery damage the minds of our youth; the novel allegedly teaches students to discriminate against black people and revert back to the times of slavery and segregation. This is, however, an absurd idea spurred by the current American fixation that everything must be done in a way that could, in no way, insult or look down upon any social group, except for those deemed damaging by the omnipotent soccer moms of America. The protest against Huck Finn is made even more absurd by the fact that Mark Twain uses satire and irony to speak against the image of white superiority and slavery.


/me shrugs and walks away