Michael Patrick Hearn responds: 
 Just more bunk.  Whoever the hell JT is wants Baum to 
 be a raving genocidal maniac.  Not true.   He was 
 bigoted but he did NOT make it his life's work to 
 eradicate the native people of North America.  He 
 preached tolerance in his children's books.  People 
 change.  Live with it!