Tweet Gov. Bill Lee in JanuaryPhoto: Office of Gov. Bill Lee In a better world than ours, it would be deeply embarrassing that the two most insightful books about white Americans were written by one man 140 years ago — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi. Have we really not improved or become more complicated since then? No, dear white readers. No, we have not. The central, damning, conceit of Huck Finn is that the only good man in the novel is not recognized by white society as being a man at all. Schools still force Black kids to read