While the proff wouldn't seem to have any practical legal recourse, he seems well aware of the climate there (most proffs learn this quick), and he seems to have taken the issue in stride in spite of O'riley trying to make it into the old "us VS them".
I'll grant him a modicrum of bitterness, I'ld be pissed if I got fired, my fault or not.
If he included the book for the stated reason, then it sounds fine to me. (Never read the book, never took the course so I could be way off)
We go over stuff that I find offensive in class, but in the context, it has always made sense.
Self-concious is walking into the pub library and handing the nice, older, black woman there the copy of "Toms, Coons, Mammies, Mulattoes, and Bucks" I needed for theory this year.
-fibber