This week in class, we analyzed The Problem We All Live With by Norman Rockwell. We also talked about the controversy surrounding the N word and how one teacher was fired for talking about its historical use (in other words, not as a racial slur). Because of the sensitive nature of the N word, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can only be taught in American Studies, despite the book's usage of the word being natural in historical context. We also talked about how a teacher was fired for saying the N word, once again only in historical context.
The N word will always be controversial. But shouldn't it be ok for books to use that word for historical accuracy? Huckleberry Finn used the N word 219 times. As a result, th
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