Be gone with ya’ll, Huck Finn and Atticus Finch! The revisionist historians are at it again and are legislatin’ ya’ll out’ve the libraries.

The headline read “Virginia school district suspends ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,’ ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ after complaint.”*

Apparently, the eggheads in a local Indoctrination Ministry (otherwise known as the public school system) have suddenly discovered that such period novels as Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” have that ‘N’word in them.

“WAVY-TV reports that a parent [as in one] voiced concerns over the books during a school board meeting earlier this month” [emphasis added].* That’s right; only one. But it’s enough to

 “Right now, we are a nation divided as it is,” the mother said in her complaint. “She tells the board that her biracial son, a high school student, struggled getting through a page that was riddled with a racial slur [emphasis added].” **

Really? Seriously? He couldn’t finish reading a page because there were racial slurs in the dialogue? So, maybe we should pull rap songs off of iTunes and radio stations cause when rap “artists” say the “N” word, the “B” word or call for the killing of cops in the lyrics to their “music” we could have minorities, women and cops hearing these songs driving or walking down the street struggling to walk or drive.

“The Virginia [school district] has temporarily suspended the use of [these] books while officials examine the issue. A committee that includes a principal, librarian and others will now review the books and make a recommendation to the superintendent.” A public school principal and librarian don’t really strike me as objective judges concerned with teaching historical period-correct vs politically-correct viewpoints.

But, sadly, the infection of political-correctness and fear of lawsuits has the whole world running scared anymore – to the point that this kind of stupid overreaction has become the norm rather than the exception to the rule. At the rate this decay is accelerating, pretty soon the public school system will be teaching that the Civil War was fought over a dispute in the minimum wage instead of States Rights or even slavery.

God help us.

*"Virginia School District Suspends Classic Novels after Complaint." CBSNews. CBS Interactive, 01 Dec. 2016. Web. 01 Dec. 2016.

**Reporter, Dave Elias Chief Political, Graham Hunter Reporter, and Nestor Mato Reporter. "Virginia Schools Pull Classic Novels following Complaints." NBC-2.com. N.p., 01 Dec. 2016. Web. 01 Dec. 2016.

***Mark Twain photo by Photographer: A.F. Bradley in his studio. is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923.

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