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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

Posted on 03/15/2021 2:14:46 PM PDT by dead

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To: Mr. K

I think you would be correct.


61 posted on 03/15/2021 3:29:58 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: vladimir998

Indeed note post #2


62 posted on 03/15/2021 3:31:29 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: dead

His mother was Atticus Finch? Too bad the son turned out to be a soy boy douchebag.


63 posted on 03/15/2021 3:35:31 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: dead

Wasn’t Green Eggs and Ham a story to teach kids to be open about trying new things?

I guess openness and tolerance are now racist qualities.

The way the left is going, there will not be a single positive human character trait that is not racist.

And this guy is obviously making up a false story to fit the current narrative. Forty years ago, anyone who wanted to teach their kids to be literate read to them from Dr. Seuss. Perhaps this guy’s mother did not want him to be educated, because being educated is “acting white”?


64 posted on 03/15/2021 3:36:23 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: dead

More than one.


65 posted on 03/15/2021 3:36:42 PM PDT by lastchance
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To: ponygirl

Christian groups that do not eat pork:

Seventh-Day Adventists
Hebrew Roots Movement
Messianic Judaism
Ethiopian Orthodox
Eritrean Orthodox

Statistically, it is most probable that the author is referring to a Seventh-Day Aventist church.


66 posted on 03/15/2021 3:39:56 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
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To: DoughtyOne
They come up with false testimonials to buttress them.

Hillary's M.O., and apparently Kamazuela's as well (think Kwanzaa story here.)

They fool almost nobody who can read, think and reason.

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67 posted on 03/15/2021 3:42:47 PM PDT by Seaplaner
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To: dead

BS


68 posted on 03/15/2021 3:44:40 PM PDT by caver
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To: dead
“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.

Jews who didn’t want to live in a non-Jewish society founded Israel as a sanctuary. My great uncle who came from a mountain village in Austria felt that urban USA was hopelessly corrupt, and returned to live out his years in his original town.

I’m not being flippant - if she feels this way, why not take entire family to Ghana or Nigeria and raise them there?

69 posted on 03/15/2021 3:51:22 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Kozak

“A black person’s humanity can never be fully realized in the presence of whiteness.”
In other words, whiteness is so superior it prevents blacks from developing.
This is the most lame excuse yet. Blacks that truly believe that nonsense need to relocate to a black society where there is little or no exposure to whites. Africa comes to mind. There they would only have to contend with the Chinese colonizers.


70 posted on 03/15/2021 3:51:43 PM PDT by .44 Special (Tp)
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To: dead

The author is the product of a racist mother & is a racist herself!


71 posted on 03/15/2021 3:57:57 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
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To: Tax-chick

No, statistically and with a communist-activist mother, it’s much more likely he’s a Nation of Islam subversive that has been programmed to destroy this country. Nice try though; why don’t you just link to Snopes next time?


72 posted on 03/15/2021 4:00:04 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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To: dead
I wonder what the author's mother would have thought about Michelle Obama?


73 posted on 03/15/2021 4:16:12 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: dead

Michael, sounds like your mom was a real pain in the ass, bless her heart


74 posted on 03/15/2021 4:16:14 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: LadyDoc
Anyone objecting to Dr Seuss in 1980 would be a right wing anti Semite objecting to his liberalism and for being Jewish.

That could be true, or the person objecting to Dr. Seuss in 1980 could be a leftist anti Semite, or a member of the Nation of Islam or a similar group who happened to be anti-Semitic (and anti pork).

In this case the author's mother seems to be opposed to pork which is certainly an unusual religious belief among common Christian congregations in the southern USA. To my knowledge only Seventh Day Adventists abstain from eating pork.

You are correct however in saying that in 1980 people opposed to Dr. Suess would have most likely been opposed to his generally liberal views.

75 posted on 03/15/2021 4:25:13 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: dead

Mom sounds like a Joanne Chesimard wannabe in this sad tale from the disastrous ‘70s.


76 posted on 03/15/2021 4:31:09 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: TallahasseeConservative
this is the mindset of a vast majority of Blacks in America today

That was my point. He's claiming this was his mother's point of view 40 years ago. He's making it up. Leftists hadn't risen to this level of stupidity yet.

77 posted on 03/15/2021 4:31:21 PM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPC8zB-JPSg)
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To: dead

My Mom and Dad tried their best to keep me open minded, but real life in public school probably closed it a bit.


78 posted on 03/15/2021 4:33:54 PM PDT by TBall
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To: dead

did anyone read little brown cocoa book? it was my favorite and didn’t turn me against blacks. anyone see Amos and Andy? on tv and on radio before tv.. my little Margiez?


79 posted on 03/15/2021 4:54:30 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Kozak

Mom was a lunatic or the author is a liar. Either outcome is not complinentary.

CC


80 posted on 03/15/2021 4:56:14 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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