[PEN-L:33479] Huck Finn

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

> To my mind, the rejection of Mark Twain's HUCK FINN as
> "racist" because it uses the "N word"

Just for accuracy's sake. I suppose some label racist for that reason,
but the feature of the book focused on by those who read it is not the
language but that last terrible section in which Tom Sawyer frees Jim.
Try to imagine a book in which two black men subject a white woman to
such humiliation in the process of helping her escape from a gang of
black hoodlums.

That's no reason to ban the book -- it is a reason to take a second look
at it.

Carrol