Who said it was a "HATE novel"?
That's not the point.
Since when does a well "rounded education" need to include racial slurs?
I agree. We should bury them like the Confederate flag! Hell, let's bury that entire sad period of US History! Nobody has any reason to study it!
I didn't say anyone said it was a "hate" novel. History is full of ugly things. Slavery, racial slurs, murders, attrocities beyond belief, and the list goes on. We have matured as a society and we are teaching our children right from wrong. Does this mean that we are to throw away past literature? Burn the books? What a tragedy that would be.
I read Huckleberry Finn as a child. My children read Huckleberry Finn. And yet none of us became bigots, none of us use racial slurs. We learned valuable lessons from Huck and Tom Sawyer.
In my honest opinion, only someone who has a chip on their shoulder, or has not outlived past wrongs, or simply believes that everything every written should be censored, would believe that Huckleberry Finn should be banned.
Since any understanding of civilization, culture, and society depends on understanding the history that lead to it. It's like asking why "The Red Badge of Courage" has to have all that icky bloodshed in it.
The whole point of "Huckleberry Finn" is that Huck stops seeing Jim as a lowly "nigger" and realizes that he is his best friend and the best human he knows. Huck overcomes the matrix of the society around him.