Hey, Don:

In the case of Joel Chandler Harris, I don't believe that he was trying to be racist. I don't think, though that's a valid comparison about banning all literature that mentions "white." Song Of The South, the Uncle Remus character and Brer' Rabbit stories haven't been criticized because they use the word "black." I do believe that the word n***** is used in the Joel Chandler Harris book (although I don't know the context in which it was used.) Not that context would excuse the use of the word..

If whites had been sold into slavery and denied basic freedoms for generations as blacks were (and to some extent still are denied freedoms) maybe we'd be protesting a book that used the term "whitey" in it..

Jerry