 and to ask school children now to work with it in mandatory classrooms is probably a mistake. Bill, we're not setting you up here, but we recently talked with David Blight, Yale historian, biographer of Frederick Douglass, about the use of the N-word and whether or not it should be taught, and here's what he had to say. Do you think that Huckleberry Finn should still be taught in English classes or should it be edited?