A school has removed To Kill a Mockingbird from classes because it uses the word "nigger".

I agree with the writer that discussing the substance of racism should not mean avoiding old books for terminology we now reject.

It is ironic that the criticisms include "white saviour complex, since the book actually shows the limits of white saviours. The protagonist tries to be a white saviour but fails to save the black man from being falsely convicted. Whereupon that man tried to escape from prison, and was killed. On hearing that, someone says (I paraphrase from lack of memory), "He got tired of waiting for us to give him justice, so he decided to get his own justice."