The N-word is perhaps the most powerful word in the English language. It carries 400 years of brutal American history that can strike with the force of a lash.
Nice people don't say it. F-bombs are soggy firecrackers compared to the explosive power of…well, you know.
So it's easy to see why an educator and publisher in Alabama would choose to delete the word from a new edition of Huckleberry Finn, substituting "slave" in its stead.
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