In the age of Obama, some want to banish ‘Huck Finn’ and abolish Black History Month. Are they wrong?

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In early January, just before Obama’s inauguration, John Foley, a white high-school teacher in Ridgefield, Wash., penned a guest editorial in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that suggested it was time to stop teaching books that readily use the “N word.” Stories that portray African-Americans as inarticulate and unintelligent souls in need of white America often offended both his black and white students. Foley identified “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Of Mice and Men” as three books that needed to be reconsidered immediately.

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