Now that we have a black president, an Oregon teacher says he's
ready to stop teaching about the days when the "n-word" was acceptable
- and he's willing to say bye-bye to some of the most acclaimed books
of school curricula to do it.
John Foley says he's sick of having to explain the usage of the "n-word" in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird to his students.
Sure,
in the end the authors stood as beacons of light in their time for
writing books that decried racism, but Foley doesn't think kids (or "an
angry African American mom") have the wherewithal to stick with it to
the end of the books.
OK, let's back up here. He's decrying racism and a lack of education with . . . racism and a refusal to educate?
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