James was complete dog shit. And it won the Pulitzer.

Spoiler alert: James is Huck’s biological father, but doesn’t love him as much as his other kids because Huck can pass for white.

This is the “corrected” message over the original Huck Finn in which a little white kid learns all the shit he’s been taught in the world is wrong — and that he would rather go to hell than turn in Jim - who he went from seeing as a slave to a full fledged human being. Jim was the most moral character in the book, but that wasn’t good enough for Percival Everett.