New 'Huckleberry Finn' Reprint Eliminates 'N' Word - TIME NewsFeed

New 'Huckleberry Finn' Reprint Eliminates 'N' Word - TIME NewsFeed

Was Mark Twain a racist? Did he write Huck Finn with a racist agenda?

The whole f*&%n point of the book is that Huck befriends another outcast (black man) in society and they have a friendship not based upon race but upon mutual respect.
In fact as with most of Mark Twain the book is a scathing critique on post bellum racism even though the book takes place before the Civil War, Twain originates the content of your character rather than the color of your skin concept enshrined by king 80 years later.

The whole f*&%n point of the book is that Huck befriends another outcast (black man) in society and they have a friendship not based upon race but upon mutual respect.

So what is really being denied is the reality of American Cultural Bigotry that exists up until the day, exemplified by an unwillingness to deal with reality.