From Arizona:
"A book being used in an American Literature class has a student and his mother so offended that the mother has threatened to file a civil-rights complaint. The mother, Dolores Fisher, alleges racial mistreatment, the segregation of her son and the use of a racial slur in the classroom.
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is required reading at Cactus High School. But it soon became a troubled tale when Fisher's 15-year-old son brought it home and said he wasn't comfortable reading it in class.
"I read it and I was in shock," she said. "When I went to high school in New York, I actually didn't have to read it because it was taken off shelves."
Fisher's upset with the derogatory word that appears more than 400 times in the book....
"It's a very good book by a very famous author," said parent Carl Stacey. "I think it has some good virtues in it. I don't see anything wrong with it at all."
Source
A previous attack on Huck Finn was noted here on Nov. 4th.
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