School district removes "To Kill a Mockingbird" and Huck Finn because they contain racial slurs

[trof]

10. Aw crap.

Tom Sawyer was set in a time about 20 (short) years after the South's surrender/defeat/ass whuppin'.

Nigger Jim is a character in the novel.
"Nigger" is a term that was in very common usage north and south, east and west, upside down, and downside up back then.
And for many years after.
More's the pity.

OK.
WE DON'T DO THAT ANY MORE.
Well, most of us, anyway.


But to denigrate (damn, was that TOO close to the deaded "N" word?) an author's creation just because customs and mores of the time it was written in offends you now is just dumb.

In my humble opinion.
I have given copies of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to My daughter and grandchildren and I think they are better people for having read them.
So there.