Miss Evolution

[Rev. Rye]

Part of the problem lies way beyond the teachers, at the board level. Superintendents tend to kiss the ass of school boards. I once had to go to a hearing because I allowed kids to read the "N" word aloud as they read Huck Finn. The kid who complained and got his mom all fired up called all his friends the same word. But of course, that was meant in friendship, and Mark Twain was clearly a racist.

Ignorance prevails in American education all too often.

Especially glaring considering the context; even before the Civil Rights movement, Twain clearly knew how wrong it was that Jim was considered less than human in the South, and he seems to have purposely made it so that Jim is practically the only sympathetic adult in the entire book.