Looks like a gray striped cat with a white chest and face which is very common markings on cats. I have three with similar markings. Now, if the author wants to debate the racial aspects of red fish and blue fish or the objectification of left and right feet...
To such critics Dr. Seuss was a white supremacist (they outright call him that) and any calls for assimilation are negative.
So I guess the evil white people of Whooville madeThe Grinch the bitter thief he was. All property is theft. Keep Christmas out of the town square etc etc
I’m sure they say the same thing about Aesop. How dare those ants not share their provisions with the lazy and carefree grasshopper.