I see praises about this guy everywhere and I'm so confused after picking up one of his books. Was he racist back in the day and then changed or something? It seems like he's written a fair amount of anti racist literature, which makes it all the more confusing why he's using the n word. Is there something I'm missing here?
by thesprung
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Just going out on a limb, I’ve never even heard of the guy, it probably is relevant to the characters in the type of story he wants to tell. The characters in the story don’t reflect him and his personal beliefs, after all.
Mark Twain was obviously not racist but phew – don’t read Huck Finn I guess?
He isn’t racist and neither was Mark Twain, but they both wrote at a time when there was a different cultural standard regarding white storytellers using that word. It’s pretty uncomfortable to read now but the past is a foreign country.
Look at when the books were released, it was a different time.