The world is full of short-sighted morons. You know that, right? Especially when it comes racial issues in literature. I was once evaluated, by a student in one of my college classes, as a racist. Why? I taught
The Sun Also Rises, in which the narrator uses the "n" word; therefore, I was a racist for having chosen the book. Yeah -- slightly flawed logic.
A teacher I worked with informed me, today, that a librarian that he worked with in a school whose demographics were 100% African-American refused to have
any book in the school library that contained the "n" word. While I get the sentiment, one wonders where that leaves, say, Richard Wright.
