A few weeks ago in class, we briefly discussed how there is talk of trying to remove racist terms from Huckleberry Finn. In my opinion, this is a huge disregard to history. While the terms in the book may be highly offensive and hard to deal with in schools, it is still an accurate portrayal of the time period. The novel was written as a depiction of what was going on in this pre civil war era. To eliminate the racist terms of the novel would be like pretending they never happened and erasing the memory of the hardships of African Americans and racist actions made by whites. The racist themes and concepts teach students about the time period and the wrong doings of the past. I feel removing them from the book would just be a way of masking what truly happened in the past.
-Ryan Fleming blog post #22
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