The Jim character in Twain's Huckleberry Finn may superficially fit every abominable stereotype in the book, but a close study of his role in the novel shows him to be brave, loyal, loving and decent. Indeed, he is a better man than most of the white characters, even Huck, who can at least be forgiven because of his youth. After all, Jim's loyalty and affection to Huck leads him to follow his young master Down the River, the last direction a slave in those days wanted to travel.

You have to take the self-righteousness of the PC types with a grain of salt, its mostly well-meaning, but self-righteous, humbug.

As I enjoy pointing out to those who are so outraged by the stereotypical Charlie Chan character,

1) Charlie clearly has his act together better than the inept Anglo detectives who invariably come to him for help.

2) His Westernized son is the total idiot in the family, certainly not the traditional Chinese detective.

3) Charlie not only outsmarts the white authorities, he outsmarts the white criminals he pursues. Charlie ALWAYS gets his man.

The PC crowd often misses the whole point the original author was trying to get across in a very subtle way.

Having said that, I make no judgement on JC Harris' work, never having read any of it. However, the Disney interpretation of it was racist.