Posted on 03/15/2021 2:14:46 PM PDT by dead
My mother had a ban on pork, and I thought she was mad that I broke it. One afternoon four decades ago, when I was about 8, I walked into my family’s house after playing outside and saw my mother sitting in the yellow recliner with a book in her lap. She had found the copy of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham.
I knew that I was in trouble, because normally no one sat in the canary-colored La-Z-Boy, a throne reserved for my grandmother. Another member of the family occupying it automatically meant that something very serious had happened. Seeing the book she was holding, I briefly assumed that its subject was the problem; consuming unclean swine meats was a sin in our church.
But the real issue, I soon learned, was that Dr. Seuss was on our family’s list of banned authors—for precisely the reason that the famous children’s book author is in the news this week: Some of his works portrayed nonwhite people in a racist way. My mother went to what I now realize were enormous lengths to shield us from negative images of Black people, a seemingly impossible task for someone raising children in 1970s and ’80s South Carolina. The intensity of her displeasure over a Dr. Seuss book being in her home—and not even one of the objectionable titles—speaks to how much labor her plan required.
The book that got me in trouble wasn’t even mine. My youngest sister, Robin, had received it as a gift. But knowing that it was forbidden, my sisters placed it in my care because they were younger...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
This guy's blatantly racist mother allegedly had a problem with Dr. Suess forty years ago, and The Atlantic thinks that adds a level of respectability to the idiocy.
His attempt at justification is weak, and his story is probably made up.
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.
I can smell the bullsh*t from here
Hopefully Mom didn’t let the kiddies see any photos or videos of blacks rioting.....
that would be a negative stereotype for sure...
Guess the “Reverend Jacksonnnnnnnn” has some ‘splainin’ to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mqg4C0awA
Maybe this is satire?
Because blacks in Africa are pure and have utopia.
Every time, the black activists prove their racism while trying to prove other’s racism.
Every
dang
time
Seriously, transpose the word “white” for every recitation of the word “black” and there would be people out calling for this author’s execution. But since he is obviously “black” it cannot possibly be racist.
And “The Atlantic” will not dare let anyone comment on his article, it is gospel now.
the needle on my lie detector just pegged
I am throwing my BS flag on this one!
I agree! It, the story, is rather smelly and opportunistic; a way of building on the current race theory woke fantasies. This writer comers out of no where saying “mom” was anti Suess and “woke” 40 years before it became a thing..
Sure Mack! Sure!
this sounds like another pile of self-serving BS from one of our professional perpetual victims.
My entire family and extended family is multiracial, multinational and multi-ethnic and has been for better than 4 decades.
This is absolute BS. We read Dr. Seuss to the kids and not one thought it was anything other than a story.
What about the stereotypical cartoons of Cletus Yokel, and the Pogo cartoons which “insulted” an entire class of poor, white Appalachians and southerners?
Pogo had it right: We have met the enemy and it is us.
Atlantic publishes Ta-Nehisi Coates who writes similar crazy stuff.
Both seem to be the African American equivalent of red diaper doper babies,
Do I need to read this article, I know I should, but is it worth it, I dont feel like killing my brain cells.
Somebody has to tell me what was wrong with Dr. Seuss! I do not remember seeing anything objectionable in his writings.
Sounds like mom was a lunatic.
What a liar.
We want fweedum from racust Seuss!
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