Author: Racism revealed in Dr. Seuss' work, children's literature

Chicago Tribune ^ | November 27, 2017 | Darcell Rockett

[ConservativeStatement]

Dr. Seuss’ colorful characters and rhyming whimsy have made the late writer’s books a staple in libraries both personal and public.

But Seuss was not without his shortcomings, says Philip Nel, an English professor at Kansas State University. According to Nel, Seuss’ “The Cat in the Hat” is rife with racial caricature and “the influence of blackface minstrelsy lingers.”

[Wuli]

So if I actually like the wonderful soulful voice in African American gospel songs and I emulate that in music I make, I’m being “racist”.

No. Copying is the greatest form of flattery, not disdain.

Is Dr. Seuss asking the reader to find disdainful humor (as if laughing at, not with) his characters as not just funny, but stupid funny creatures? No.

I’m really no fan of Dr Seuss, but I’d forever be a bigger fan of Dr Seuss than the idiot “professor” that considers Seuss racist, knowingly or not knowingly.

[jalisco555]

So if I actually like the wonderful soulful voice in African American gospel songs and I emulate that in music I make, I’m being “racist”.

According to current Progressive ideology that is exactly right. It's cultural appropriation and it's racist. We must all remain in our narrow assigned boxes and never stray. Or so we're told.

[bgill]

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...

[a fool in paradise]

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

[a fool in paradise]

I’m sure they say the same thing about Aesop. How dare those ants not share their provisions with the lazy and carefree grasshopper.

[Kozak]

I love it. Theodor Seuss Geisel was a huge Lefty.
We are at that delicious point where the Revolution eats it’s own.

[Fightin Whitey]

We are at that delicious point where the Revolution eats its own.

Better still, we on the right are the ones with all the smarts and fire-power.

[Jonah Hex]

“People don’t see the blackface ancestry of the Cat for the same reason that they don’t see the blackface ancestry of Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, or the Scarecrow. These images are so embedded in the culture that their racialized origins have become invisible,” Nel writes in his book “Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books.”

(sigh)

[ConservaTeen]

Are the Who racist? Or is Thing 1 or Thing 2 racist? Maybe the Grinch is racist to the Who? My gosh, is the Red Fish racist towards the Blue Fish. Maybe Dr Seuss was Islamophobic because of ‘Green Eggs and HAM’. I’m confused...