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The N Word Analysis

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With the use of the N word being very controversial , depending on who uses it, and the use of it in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn about 219 times this is a book that people feel very skeptical about. Should we censor this book to keep the innocent children unaware of the history that the people of color had endured or to hide the terrible wrong that has been made? When this book is brought up in school to read and discuss with others, it brings discomfort and causes this feeling that we should not be saying this word. The N-word only brings more attention to the book, it shows us how the people of color were treated, they were not treated like human beings or equal to those who have a white skin tone. This is one of the reasons that …show more content…

As the people of color see the word of this overcoming of the oppression, for example ”As with many slurs, in-group usage by people who might themselves have been slurred with the term by out-groupers, nigger is used among African Americans to express camaraderie” (Allan) this is how it is justified when it's used by someone of color. We hear this on a daily basis with rap music, when the word is being used it is either to say a pal or a companion it's symbolizing "Having an awareness that you have, your people have overcome centuries of oppression. The pride of saying, 'Yeah, you can say anything you want and it won't slow me down one bit,'" Bradley said (News, CBS). Which comes down to one point that was spoken about in a video “The kindergarten rule”, the rule is I can make fun of my mother but you can not. This is to show how the people of color can use the word but others can not. This fight was against slavery and segregation because once slavery was gone they were treated as unequal to those of a white skin tone. For example Minstrel shows where white men went black face to produce stereotypes of people of color as docile, happy and ignorant to depict slavery as natural. This is why the N-word usage is complex because “These stereotypes of blacks helped to reinforce attitudes amongst whites that blacks were fundamentally different and inferior”(Historical Context) this is why some one of a white skin tone using the N-word is seen as racist. We must expose how the usage of the word in Huckleberry Finn is brought up, even if Huck says it himself. Huck sees Jim as a human being not some runaway slave but as a friend or a fatherly figure. Jim expresses his emotion toward Huck and we can see this when Jim explains the incident with his daughter, Jim thinking she was being disobedient but in reality she was deaf, and this

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