“But Mario, 8, has noticed something about these and many of the other books he encounters in his classroom at Bayard Taylor Elementary here: most of the main characters are white. “I see a lot of people that don’t have a lot of color,” he said.”
8 year-olds don’t think that way. It’s taught to them by their racist parents and teachers.
Unfortunately there IS an image missing in all readers that the schools buy and that is a family ie husband and wife raising their kids.