[West Texas Chuck]

You can say Nigga in popular culture, but not the word that ends with -er. WTF is the diff?

What about N***** Jim? I always thought he was a good guy. He helped Huck survive on the island and kept him from seeing the dead guy in the floating house.

I love Sam Clemens. If I ever had kids I would have given all of them the middle name Langhorne.

[struggle]

The whole point of the novel was that Huck was willing to go to hell for freeing Jim. Of course, the left will never see that, nor will they see all those loyal KKK Democrats.

[DBrow]

There is a more modern novel that still uses the N word (as well as other terms for Indians and Chinese), Last Go Around by Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs.

[muawiyah]

We were up driving around Elmira and environs and stopped to check out Mark Twain's grave site. He's there. His family is there. It's a nice spot under some trees and you can tell a lot of people stop by.

We all took pictures with the grave stones then we went down the hill to check out some crypts with some relatives in them. Actually that whole graveyard just reeked of family names with which I'm familiar ~ rather impressed that Mark Twain himself chose to be buried among them.

Honored, really.

If you ever find yourself wandering about here's where to go: http://www.ci.elmira.ny.us/history/mark_twain.html