Journal Entry #19: "The Huck Finn Controversy"

To many, The Adventures if Huckleberry Finn is a classic story of American boyhood and his lesson about the truth behind slavery, to others, its a book that spams the "N-word" uncontrollably and makes it unusable for teaching American Literature. For me, I found it puzzling how just one word would make a countless number of schools ban one of the classics of American Literature. This was until I saw the "60 minutes" special about the censorship of Huckleberry fin and the disturbing power behind the "N-Word."

I understood the intentions of the man who was behind replacing the "N-word" with "slave" for his latest edition of Huckleberry Finn. More schools could use the book and still teach the message in the book about slavery, but does it? I don't think so, at least not to the same extent as the original copy. The use of such a word was not that uncommon back then in the South, and taking that out is like shedding a blanket over a serious problem back then. Alone, the word is just a word, but back then, white slave owners gave that word its true meeting and power as they used their word on their slaves. So taking that word away covers a part if American History that Southern whites and Blacks did want to see.

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