Gary M. MONGIOVI, You may be beating on a dead horse with this laurel and hardy statement on how Clemens' Finn is nearer to a prejudicial view than most defenders, against censorship of this work would claim. If we take your comment, "... virtually all of the white characters, aside from Huck and Tom, are either fools or evil curs. Jim is depicted as a decent and honorable person, as are most of the other black characters," and through deconstructive theorizing comprehend that such reverse discrimination is truly an attempt at belittling Blacks through the anti-thetical use of Black/White and Good/Evil it is clear that the ignorant must remain unaware of this work. Ignorant readers might assume, since most of the black characters were good and most of the white characters were evil, that Twain was speaking out against errors of the gentile society within which he was raised. Of course the educated reader would be certain to see the clear error in this proposition. Thank goodness for the academics who filter such anti-empirical disentropy, with its deconstructive anti-negativeness, from the positive role model process parameters. Wouldn't want our children to be programmed to believe that what one says is what one means when clearly it is not what one says that is meant by saying just the opposite, right? Your vigilant value structure alert is well heeded. Mike Koopman