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...
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I think you would be correct.
Indeed note post #2
His mother was Atticus Finch? Too bad the son turned out to be a soy boy douchebag.
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”?
More than one.
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.
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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BS
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?
“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.
The author is the product of a racist mother & is a racist herself!
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?
Michael, sounds like your mom was a real pain in the ass, bless her heart
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.
Mom sounds like a Joanne Chesimard wannabe in this sad tale from the disastrous ‘70s.
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.
My Mom and Dad tried their best to keep me open minded, but real life in public school probably closed it a bit.
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?
Mom was a lunatic or the author is a liar. Either outcome is not complinentary.
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