Dr. Seuss’s drawing of African natives with mouth rings and grass skirts is not “racist.” On the contrary, it’s an example of the “diversity” that liberals are always saying they are in favor of. Here are some photographs of real life African

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Dr. Seuss’s drawing of African natives with mouth rings and grass skirts is not “racist.” On the contrary, it’s an example of the “diversity” that liberals are always saying they are in favor of. And here are some photographs of real life African natives to prove it.

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

March 6, 2021

Here’s a drawing by Dr. Seuss, which social justice warriors claim is “racist.”

Do I think the drawing is racist?

Before answering that question, I decided to google some photographs of real life African natives.

Here are two that I found. I’m including them here under the policy of fair use:

Sources:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/399483429416927556/

https://www.alamy.com/women-in-grass-skirts-performing-kastom-traditional-culture-dancing-image65466219.html

Now that I have looked at the photographs, my answer to the question is no. I do not think Dr. Suess’s drawing is racist.

I say this, because the mouth rings and grass skirts in Dr. Seuss’s drawing, are based on real life mouth rings and grass skirts in the two photographs.

Liberals are always saying they want “diversity.”

But now liberals are saying that Dr. Seuss’s drawing is “racist” because it included that very same diversity.

If Dr. Suess had only included white people in his drawings, liberals would be criticizing him for his lack of diversity.

This article From Yahoo! criticizes the lack of black hairstyles in modern movies. The author writes:

But the report found some short-comings, noting… more than half of Black leading ladies in popular films from the past decade have hairstyles consistent with “European standards of beauty as opposed to natural Black hairstyles.”

So the people who create books and movies will always be accused or racism, no matter what they do. If they do show black hairstyles, they get accused of racism. If they don’t show black hairstyles, they get accused of racism.

I’m against cancel culture.

However, based on the “logic” of cancel culture, if the Dr. Seuss drawing of mouth rings and grass skirts should be “canceled,” then so should all photographs of mouth rings and grass skirts.

[PROCON]

Why in the heck is FR having these weird punctuation symbols reappearing like they did 6-7 years ago??

[Texas Eagle]

Ah. So the real racists are African-Africans.

[Deaf Smith]

Grass skirts...

They found some way to defeat chiggers?

[TribalPrincess2U]

What’s your problem?

[TribalPrincess2U]

Oh, I see now. Oops

[PROCON]

Do you not see these odd squares replacing punctuation symbols?

That's my 'problem'.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Thanks for the explanation. I did see what you mean’t. It finally dawned on me what you were talking about.

[gnarledmaw]

Im seeing the weirdness also.

[BenLurkin]

Do you seriously think that is typical of how people in Africa dress?

[GeorgianaCavendish]

Cancel National Geographic.

[Vermont Lt]

Only when the tourists are in town.

[Williams]

First of all, Dr. Seuss wasn’t racist and neither was drawing African natives whether typical or not.
I like the movie Black Panther and I’m heart broken the star died of cancer.
That recent movie, with a black director, cast and theme, has every one of these stereotypes including the lip rings and grass skirts. They even call one of the heroes “great gorilla” and his tribe goes into battle making monkey sounds.
Because none of those things are racist unless you want to see them as racist.

[ctdonath2]

I’m seeing an ‘a’ with a caret over it instead of a right apostrophe.
A distracting number of them actually.

[PghBaldy]

I think liberals of all colors are embarrassed by the reality of many Africans. It is still a very backward continent.

[SauronOfMordor]

The reality is that the truth is racist.

It is racist to point out that blacks account for over 50% of homicide and robbery arrests.

It is racist to point out that black average IQ is much lower than whites.

Anyone forcing people to notice this reality will be destroyed by the Left.

It is especially racist to point out the differences between African and European cultural achievements.

[linMcHlp]

bttt

[linMcHlp]

Character Set / Character Encoding / character conflicts - problems.

Some geeky explanation:

https://afreshcloud.com/sysadmin/understanding-character-encoding-problems

[Viking2002]

Yeah, but your average ‘woke’ lib isn’t trying to gin up the black vote in Ethiopia. The only concern they have for the continent is to pitch our money at it and virtue signal. Wokesters are 21st century snake oil salesmen in a sub-culture that’s awash in it. Book it.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Where did you find that picture of “Cornpop’s daughter”, National Geographic or Biden’s special magazine collection?

[No offense meant to the real Mr. Cornpop who seems like a decent person. It is just that Biden “used” him for his own political and personal enhancement. I was referring to the ears of corn this young African lady was wearing or carrying to market for sale].