From Mr. Mark Twain

            So, there has been a lot of controversy about the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn about whether n***** should be taken out of the book. Many people believe that it should be replaced, but others argue that it is a part of history and shouldn't be changed.
            My brother likened this controversy to when Pope Pious IX declared that any nudity was offensive and was banned from church art. And so any art that displayed nudity was either covered or destroyed. This drastically changed the idea of the art and its meaning.
            It is the same with Huck Finn, by substituting a different word for n*****, the meaning of the text is changed and distorted. However, a black woman I interviewed mentioned Huck Finn and said that when her children were in school and they were reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn she said that the teachers didn't know how to teach the book and the children/students didn't know how to react to the book because of all of the n-words in the book. And every time the n-word came up all of the children in the class would turn around and look at the children of color. And that can help explain why some people are lobbying for a change in the book's language.
           Conversely,  some believe that the book because it is history it shouldn't be changed in any way. That the book should be read in the context of that time period where using the n-word was commonplace. This is a classic book and distorting it in any way is just like covering nudity in art. Recently, Alan Gribben published a version on Huck Finn that used 'slave' instead of n*****. This changes the meaning of many passages, which would then twist the tale of Huckleberry Finn.
          Hopefully, in the near future there will be a conclusion to this controversy.