Leonard Pitts: When making people 'uncomfortable' is the point

It “makes some people uncomfortable.”That was the explanation Kenny Holloway, a school board official in Biloxi, Mississippi, gave the Sun Herald newspaper last week, for the board’s decision to remove from its eighth-grade curriculum a Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic, Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.”“There is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable,” said Holloway. He said this like it was a bad thing.In a nation whe