Political correctness gone berserk

With Barack Obama in the White House, it looks like it is time to update the literature used in high school classrooms in the US. Well at least according to one teacher. He say that novels that use the "N-word" need to go.

So American classics like To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have been deemed no longer suitable for students in school because they use the word 'nigger' repeatedly. This is according to John Foley of Vancouver, an English teacher at Ridgefield High School in southern Washington writing in Seattle PI. But he hopes they remain in private and public libraries. He says, "I would keep copies in my own classroom and encourage students to read them. But they don't belong on the curriculum. Not anymore. Those books are old, and we're ready for new."

The reaction to this view has resulted in an "outpouring of enraged emails and letters to the paper" says The Guardian. "What Foley wrote is indeed a lucid example of apostasy. Obama would be horrified if he knew this censorship was done in his name," said one. Another said, "Now seems like an odd time to downplay the American tragedy of slavery and its linguistic legacy - the N-word." "There is nothing in American literature that more succinctly and directly
attacks racial prejudice than Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," was a third response.

Yes, I too think Obama would be horrified.