Hatred from the Deep In 1938, millions of Germans were brainwashed and taught to hate and kill Jews. Some of these Germans were good citizens and people. It's just that society has warped their minds. America once had this problem where morality and society's beliefs were two different things. This issue was about slavery. Until the Civil War and decades after, blacks were less than citizens and servants. It was commonly accepted and expected to hand over a runaway slave or treat a black person like a farm animal. Because of this, racism was born in society. It became a fact that blacks were an inferior race. Mark Twain shows a time like this, a time when racism was not just in people who owned slaves but in people who had good morals and even in blacks themselves. It shows us that racism was not something that could be eliminated. In a society characterized by racism and slavery, even good people continue to seem like bad and moral people. In the book Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain shows that racism runs deepest not only in the hearts of slave owners, but actually deep within society: in ordinary citizens, in citizens with good morals, and even in blacks themselves. Throughout the book, Twain shows how widespread racism is throughout society by describing characters who are deeply anti-black. One thing to note first is that the word nigger is used throughout this book. This word is used as commonly as the word black is used today. First of all, the word nigger is a degrading term. By making this word so common in Huckleberry Finn, Twain shows how common this racist belief is. The expression of this word by each character in this book shows the unconscious racism within. The first deeply racist character in this book is Huck's father. There is one instance where Huck's father even complains about a mixed-race man. Huck's father is not only angry because this mixed-race man is a professor, but also because he can vote. “When they told me there was a state in this country where they would let that nigger vote, I backed away,” he says (VI). The father also complains that the man has not strayed from his path just because he is a mixed-race man. This racism isn't just about Huck's father.