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Yeah, looking back at it, I agree. It doesn't really add anything, either... Erased! Here's the second paragraph:

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Marissa Maseda writes an article in which a “lone African American student [is] sitting in a classroom filled with mostly white students, reading [Huck Finn].” She then asks what those white students could be “thinking and feeling about [the African American Student]” after reading about how “his race was treated by the ancestors of those in the room with him.” Decriers against Huck Finn constantly use the defense that the discrimination of the white characters against the black characters in the novel causes mental segregation between classmates. This notion is nonsensical. The strife between white people and black people in history is not only common knowledge, but taught in American classrooms everyday. US History textbooks around the nation chronicle the treatment of African Americans by Caucasians throughout the country’s history. The relatively recent turnaround of events delegates only the last few chapters to record the events of a comparatively racism free nation. If that African American student goes through so much turmoil during only a few weeks of reading Huck Finn, it is hard to consider the torture of nearly a full year of being told the horrible treatment blacks had to suffer through during much of American history. If this is so, then why hasn’t American History been banned from schools or the section about slavery been edited out? It is partially, perhaps, because slavery and discrimination do not cause widespread strife through the races. Mostly, though, it is because the treatment of blacks should not simply be forgotten; little black children should not be rushed out of a room anytime their ancestor’s tribulations are brought into attention. If anything, that period of time should be used to celebrate how far America has come in terms of equality. Slavery should be treated much as one would treat tripping and falling: embarrassing while it occurs, but something to look back at and laugh at the absurdity afterwards.


/me shrugs and walks away