Reflecting on the N-word

When we started this book Ms Macho told us the Twain was going to use the word n------ in the book multiple times. It was surprise to me when she said that it was going to be said more than 250 times in this book. My experience with the word n----- is negative and I think is very racist word. However, I also hear a lot of my friends say it and I don’t think they’re racist. They use it and write it with an “a not and er” I also see black people call each other n----- too I don’t understand why but i think it’s just a word some most of the people use to sound and look cool for example some people might say “ This n----” inset of saying “ This guy or whatever, the way people use the word n----- today it’s kinda different in the modern way most of the people aren’t racist they just trying to look cool or sound cool, but I also seen old African American people who take the word n----- very serious maybe because they went through the real racist negative side of the word . In the time this book was published was more racist because this book was published in 1835 in time of slavery and low tolerance towards African American or just people of color in general that explains why in the book theres is no character the doesn’t use the word n------ when they talk to a black person also explains why all the slave are black and poor. I think the way the my friends use it is is not that of a negative to the people cause they might be used to it already but I don’t think is okay the my friends or just people from the whole nation call each other the word n----- because it cames from the negative and racist view from the book during racist century it cames with the purpose of trying make people feel down and less than other people just because of the skin color this is why I believe that my friends shouldn’t be using this word base to the negative discriminated background history the word n------ has in the past.