In “Expelling Huck Finn,” Nat Hentoff claims that The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn should not be banned from school reading because it helps the society to understand its earlier mistakes on racial discrimination. Hentoff introduces a concern by NAACP demanding that tax money should not be used for a racial prejudice book that makes African-American children feel self-conscious, describes how African-American students can differentiate from a racist book and an anti-racist one based on Nat’s own experience, and contrasts the white characters and Jim in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn proving an ironic situation on stereotypes made by society. Nat Hentoff also refers to the NAACP’s national assistant director Michael Meyers, who wrote to
