vel makes people like you uncomfortable because racism is still here in our country to day. There is a certain degree of fear when faced with reality. Having a book like this may bring up harsh feelings about the heritage of African Americans, feelings that need to be done and over with. We are no longer in the Civil Rights Movement, and there is not any more slavery in our country. . By eliminating Huckleberry Finn, you eliminate a piece of history. Pretending something didnt happen doesnt make the after effects disappear. For example, the Holocaust is often denied in certain parts of the world. If we start to pull all the detailed books off the shelves it will soon be forgotten. There are many documentaries of peoples personal experiences with the Holocaust, Huckleberry Finn is the closest one we have to slavery. In this school we will not pretend that slavery never happened and that the word nigger was never used. As we all know the word is still used today and we live in a completely different society. This novel teaches us all lessons, not only about the past but how to see through differences in this world. Although the word nigger may have been used many times in the book, it was also used when Huck and Jim treated each other as equals. The book shows the toughness of racism but also shows that you can look beyond that, thus teaching a very strong lesson. All of us here are either adults or pre adults. We are all able to watch the news every night and see what sort of racist things still go on today. Why not educate each other more instead of trying to keep out the harsh realities that we need to face....
