Mark Twain

I remember reading Mark Twain's book Huckleberry Finn a long time ago. It did surprise me that the book had mention the word nigger 219 times and when I read the book I didn't realize that it had said that word that many times, I realized it did say that word a lot but not that much. When I head that they wanted to replace nigger with slave I had the same reaction as Larry Wilmore had mention what he thought. Is slave an actual upgrade from the word nigger. In today's society that word isn't as negative as it was. Slave is still had a bad connotation to it. I do agree with Larry that Mark Twain and put that word in there for a reason. Mark Twain was a great author and Huckleberry Finn is a classical for a reason. Saying that word does give a certain atmosphere about the book and gives the book a feeling of what it was like. I also agree with Larry that it was part of the African American's culture. They shouldn't be ashamed of what they had to endure. We should be ashamed of what we did but from this learning experience we can learn and grow from it. That one word reminds us of what it was like, I think that reminder is a great way to remember from what you came from and how you are now. There has been many of races and colors of skin that were frowned upon but they are history, they are culture, they are a lesson, they are a reminder of what people have done to them and they can take pride and that they have moved past and gained the respect to which the deserve.