Episode-HL

This event happened in the novel; Mark Twain focuses on how racists acts can be due to goverment changes allowing African Americans to vote in selected states. ZAlso how obsturd goverment rules were. A free black man could only be in a slave state six months, before any white man could take his freedom. "Oh, yes, this is a wonderful govment, wonderful. Why, looky here. There was a free ni--er 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; and there ain't a man in that town that's got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a gold watch and chain, and a silver-headed cane—the old gray-headed nabob in the State. And what do you think? They said he was a p'fessor in a college, and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. And that ain't the wust. They said he could VOTE when he was at home. Well, that let me out. Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to? It was 'lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn't too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in this country where they'd let that nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I'll never vote agin. Them's the very words I said; they all heard me; and the country may rot for all me—I'll never vote agin as long as I live. And to see the cool way of that ni--er—why, he wouldn't a give me the road if I hadn't shoved him out o' the way. I says to the people, why ain't this ni--er put up at auction and sold?—that's what I want to know. And what do you reckon they said? Why, they said he couldn't be sold till he'd been in the State six months, and he hadn't been there that long yet. There, now—that's a specimen. They call that a govment that can't sell a free nigger till he's been in the State six months. Here's a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment, and yet's got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take a hold of a prowling, thieving, infernal, white-shirted free ni--er, and—" (Ch.6,Pg33). The average racists is scared that when minority races get some type of legal rights they are going to take over and be better then them. At times the goverment makes laws to protect the citezens but that are not really equal for everyone. It's like like the goverment had a face and it was burned down the midle and they used just half a mask to look good.