Reader Response 1: Huck Finn (1 - 6)

Gerquinn Joshua
3rd Hour
English 10
10.11.07

Racism

"Oh yes it was a wonderful govment, wonderful. Why looky here. There was a free n there, from Ohio; a mulatter,Most as white as a white man. He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat.....they said he was a p'fessor in a college, and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything.....They said he could vote, when he was at home.....I says I'll never vote again.....why ain't this n put up for auction and sold.....they said he couldn't be sold till he'd been in the state for six months. and he hadn't been there that ling yet.

(Chapter. 6, p.20, Par. 12)

There was a free n from Ohio, he was clean and had jewelry. They say he was smart to, and was a professor in a college. They say he couldn't be sold into slavery intil he was in the states for 6 months, and worst of all he could vote, i would never vote again as long as i live.

I think that this is racism because he is talking about all the things he can do that they let the free n do. He even said he would never vote again as long as he lived. I have had racism happen to me and my family before. Once we were at home depot and when we came out we heard someone yelling "stupid" and they we where trying to figure out what was wrong so we stopped and the man got in the car and yelled "stupid n" and drove off in the car.

I think that Mark Twain was not being racist. I think he was just getting a point across about how some parents are bad influences and just don care about there selves and there gold.
He probably was just showing how a lot of people are racist and will stop doing something just because someone of the different race is doing something that they usually can not do, and they fell that they are the top race over everyone else.