Superficial thought wins once more.
Twain’s novel was intended to condemn racism by example and illustration. And it’s not like people have quit using the N-word today even. It’s still fine, as long as you’re black, or if you are a whitey writing rap for black fartists.
It’s an interesting book, by a black guy of course.
“Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word”
‘Its the nuclear bomb of racial epithets, a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and explores the controversies that rage around it.’