With a spike in recent years of anti-racism movements, Twain’s habitual use of the word nigger has grown the movement to ban the book. Advocates for banning the book in public school systems claim that the word “nigger” can be substituted with the word “slave”. There have been multiple accounts from Twain himself that each word was hand-selected to give the book a unique feel when reading it. Some argue that they can replace every time Twain uses nigger with slave, but this would leave out the rich history and suffering of blacks, slaves or not, during the 1800s. Even during the book, Huck, who supported Jim and helped him reach freedom, along with Jim himself, use the word all of the time. It isn't just a racist word, it represents a group of people that suffered for a long time, and leaving that out is like not recognizing the large obstacle society has overcome. Nowadays, nigger is only used when representing one of two things. One is the strong relationship between two people, usually in poor metropolitan areas. The second is racism, which is why there is such a strong movement to ban this
With a spike in recent years of anti-racism movements, Twain’s habitual use of the word nigger has grown the movement to ban the book. Advocates for banning the book in public school systems claim that the word “nigger” can be substituted with the word “slave”. There have been multiple accounts from Twain himself that each word was hand-selected to give the book a unique feel when reading it. Some argue that they can replace every time Twain uses nigger with slave, but this would leave out the rich history and suffering of blacks, slaves or not, during the 1800s. Even during the book, Huck, who supported Jim and helped him reach freedom, along with Jim himself, use the word all of the time. It isn't just a racist word, it represents a group of people that suffered for a long time, and leaving that out is like not recognizing the large obstacle society has overcome. Nowadays, nigger is only used when representing one of two things. One is the strong relationship between two people, usually in poor metropolitan areas. The second is racism, which is why there is such a strong movement to ban this