Huckleberry Finn debate on the "N-word"

In my opinion, saying the "N-word" in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is not a racist word and it is not prejudice at all. For the time the book was set in, pre-Civil War, the "N-word" was commonly used. In his book, Twain wanted to get the attention of the readers by drawing attention to something that we don't like hearing. In the article it said that when the "N-word" is replaced with the word slave people tend to ignore it or be less bothered by the word. The word reflects a history that most would like to ignore, but in my opinion if you ignore it, it will only repeat itself. Sure, the teach tolerance, but if they don't teach the way it used to be then we'll never know what we're avoiding. I know it seems like a small issue but I think it impacts a lot of people.
 We have the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. They shouldn't be able to take that away from someone who wrote the book anti-slavery. They shouldn't be able to take it away from anyone. If you don't like the word, don't say it. I would never say it in public or even in my own home, but that doesn't mean it should be taken out of a classic story because of it's frequency and offensiveness. People listen to this word everyday in a song, but as soon as they see it written it's all of a sudden racist.
In my school, if we read it, I hope it isn't censored. It will be a pretty big deal for me if it is, but by high school we should be mature enough to handle a word.

Satire in Shrek

 We recently watched the movie Shrek looking for examples of satire. The type of satire I saw the most was probably exageration or reversal. Satire is a literary composition in veerse or prose in which human folly and vice are held  to scorn, derision or ridicule. There are four types of satire.Exageration is to enlarge and increase or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it's faults can be seen. Reversal is to present something the opposite of normal order. There are four types of satire. Incongruity is to present thigns that are out of place or absurd in relationship to it's surroundings. Lastly, parody is to immitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, thing or idea.
When Donkey starts to talk it is incongruity. It's out of place in normal order because normally donkeys don't talk. I thought Dulac was an exageration of order and hiearchys of the past. I thought that because it made fun of Dulac when the children start singing about how everythings perfect and if you follow orders you'll be perfect, too. Fiona saving Shrek is reversal because normally it's the damsal in distress that gets rescued by her "kinght-in-shinning-armor." When Fiona split kicks Robin Hood's Merry Men it's exageration because it's beyond normal bounds. It's beyond normal bounds because she was suspended in mid-air for a few seconds and everything paused. I think the whole movie was reversal, though. Shrek being the "kinght-in-shinning-armor" and being and ogre or Fiona being so competent. Those thing make it reversal because in the time frame this is technically supposed to be in, ogres didn't save anyone and princesses were always being rescued instead of rescuing.