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 ...
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.
And who was using the word “whiteness” in the 1970s?
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.
There’s no room for satire or humor at The Atlantic.
But maybe somebody slipped it by the editors.
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.
Another racist hero.
She didn't. He does. He's a pathological liar.
Little Black Sambo is required reading.
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.
Mr. Brown was out of town but later came back with Mr. Black. That’s so racist (sarc)
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.
Wow this is sick.
Banned literature on pork? Okeee
I think she banned Dr. Seuss because he was a Joo. Just guessing.
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.
I’m throwing the bullshit flag on this one. This is so deep: 15 yard penalty and loss of down.
Because blacks in Africa are pure and have utopia.
Well, the ones in Wakanda do!
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
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