In Our House, Dr. Seuss Was Contraband: My mother went to enormous lengths to protect her family from negative stereotypes of Black people.

The Atlantic ^ | 3/6/2021 | Michael Harriot

[Kozak]

She informed me that our childhood was part of an experiment she had envisioned before we were even born. “A Black person’s humanity can never be fully realized in the presence of whiteness,” she explained.

If that line is true, his mother had mental illness.

Mom was a Black Racist.

[vladimir998]

And who was using the word “whiteness” in the 1970s?

[Jolla]

in my grandmothers house the black lady that worked with her for 20 years stole all of grandmothers jewelry on the day she died. Grandad went to pick her up the next morning and the neighbors said they had moved out over night.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There’s no room for satire or humor at The Atlantic.

But maybe somebody slipped it by the editors.

[DoughtyOne]

These folks don’t just lie.

They come up with false testimonials to buttress them.

In my youth I visited a farm that had been owned by an old school
Dixiecrat who owned slaves.

Sadly, I don’t have to make that up.

[Jumper]

Another racist hero.

[Sirius Lee]

If that line is true, his mother had mental illness.

She didn't. He does. He's a pathological liar.

[gathersnomoss]

Little Black Sambo is required reading.

[cld51860]

This has all the earmarks of a story that will be retracted by the author at some point, but he will still try to defend it because ‘the spirit of the story is true because deep down we all know Dr. Seuss was racisssss even back then.”

Or some such garbage.

[dixie1202]

Mr. Brown was out of town but later came back with Mr. Black. That’s so racist (sarc)

[FreedomNotSafety]

This is actually a good article. Break the rules and read the whole thing. I would like to know more about this guy’s mother.

I wonder if he read the pre-sanitized Hardy Boys? They were cleaned up around 1959. But the old versions are still around. I’m pretty sure I read them and, yeah those boys could be from DeeTroit. White or black you could not tell but they did spoof on the cops.

[Williams]

Wow this is sick.

[Williams]

Banned literature on pork? Okeee

[Williams]

I think she banned Dr. Seuss because he was a Joo. Just guessing.

[Romulus]

My mother frowned on Dr Seuss because he was too liberal. We had only one of his books. It was the Sneetches, which we never even read as a racial moral. We thought it was simply about class.

[dpa5923]

I’m throwing the bullshit flag on this one. This is so deep: 15 yard penalty and loss of down.

[hanamizu]

Because blacks in Africa are pure and have utopia.

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Don’t be absurd. They would be pure and have utopia but for white colonization in the 15th though 20th centuries. But before that time, Sub Saharan Africa was heaven on earth. They were kings and queens!
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[cgbg]

Dr. Seuss! I do not remember seeing anything objectionable in his writings.

Shhhh...otherwise it will be a month in the re-education camps for you!

[17th Miss Regt]

Well, the ones in Wakanda do!

[eyeamok]

My story is opposite, my Parents taught us to respect everyone and be courteous regardless of their looks, but the Forced DeSegregation in Public Schools came Along, and well you know the rest