racist?

Although I may not feel the same emotions that this book or word may bring up while reading it, it emphasizes the voluminous amount disheartening qualities that humanity faces. We created a slanderous word to demoralize and dehumanize an entire race and we still face the maliciousness of this word in our society today. But should an entire book be censored and taken away from a broad range of schools? No. In the time that this book was written, this word was a very commonly used name. Yes it was meant to demean people, but with the help of racial movements has changed the meaning and amount of usage of that word. For instance, if a history book referenced the usage of the word in our history, then would you ban it? Our history as a nation in some places has been grim, but if we learn about how a word can negatively affect us, we can also learn what not to do in the present and the future. Because we all have issues as the human species and some of these are illustrated in the book. For instance, while Africans are demoralized, we also see some of the malicious traits of white people.