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.
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.