Nigger Jim

Louis CK did a stand up bit about it.

Reading Tom Sawyer
to his child
and leaving out the N-word.

I did the same reading Huck Finn to my son.

My son didn'  t realize it.

Thank God.

It' s not easy,
'cause it pops up about a million times
in this text
and  since my son can read,
I turned away
the pages
from him.

I managed.

I was proud.

And then, at 7.30 in the morning,
my son turns on the radio and
some singer
yells
NIGGER!!!!!!!
as an intro to a stupid pop song.

My son laughs his ass off.

That' s what he' s gonna yell in school all morning long.

Teachers will hate him.

He will fail all tests.

Girls will adore him.

He' ll be the alpha guy.

The alpha slave.

The top
nigger.