Tom Saywer is the archetype for the unseen manager, an artist in the field of sociology in the workforce; a delegating fool.
In this case, a delegating fool who knows not what he's delegating about. Everybody who's on this thread who hasn't read the novel (no insults to those who have) and who's passionately arguing about the "N" word, is really going to be scratching his/her head about what we're discussing. I finally got around to reading the novel because I'd seen one or two movies based on it, had heard all the bitter discussion about it, and just wanted to know what it really was all about.