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

[thecodont]

“A Black person’s humanity can never be fully realized in the presence of whiteness,”

He’s arguing for segregation?

[Jolla]

No my grandfather was 90 something and did not even think about the jewelry, his daughter my aunt did not notice it was missing until about a month later.

[William Tell]

From the article:”During my two weeks in solitary confinement (the maximum sentence imposed under House Court), my mother let me keep the contraband book. To this day, my sisters and I can still recite every word of Green Eggs and Ham.”

Try this:

During my two weeks in solitary confinement (the maximum sentence imposed under House Court), my mother let me keep the bicycle I stole. To this day, my sisters and I can still enjoy riding it every Christmas morning.

Or this:

During my two weeks in solitary confinement (the maximum sentence imposed under House Court), my mother let me keep the cocaine I bought. To this day, my sisters and I still buy our crack from the same dealer.

[wardaddy]

Freak show people

All kids have to learn about adversity

[wardaddy]

Or killing one another and us at genocidal rates

[Joe Boucher]

Ban Dr. Seuss?
Get a life ya piece of crap.
Go out and find real things to bitch about ya turd.

[DoodleDawg]

My mother did not hate white people any more than she hated George Jefferson or liberals hate Dr. Seuss.

I think the evidence presented in the story says otherwise.

[ronnie raygun]

Child abuse form a mentally unstable mother

[maxwellsmart_agent]

You are right! I was not thinking. I was just going by what I remember looking over the kid’s shoulders when they were reading them.

[HamiltonJay]

Put short, your Mom was a nutter... I live in a mutli ethnic nation, but I will ban exposure to the major ethnicity in my house?

Sounds about as Racist as you can get, yet this author tries to argue otherwise.

[StAnDeliver]

lol

[StAnDeliver]

"Sounds like mom was a lunatic."

She was, at least, a denier of reality. And that alone messed up her kid's conscience and conciousness permanantly.

"A few years ago, I asked my mother why she put so much effort into concocting this Caucasian-free cocoon. 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. Not a single day has passed since in which I have not thought about that sentence."