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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Was she so committed to avoiding stereotypes of black people that she got married before she started a family?
I agree.
Racist family.
Your Muslim faith banned Dr. Seuss .... not no mama enforced stereotype
“was part of an experiment”
People who have kids to conduct experiments are child abusers.
I cal BS on his rant.
Dr. Seuss is not the issue. The issue is the Revolution.
Wakanda forever!...
My favorite part of the Avengers is when Vision needs exploratory neurosurgery to remove the Infinity Stone. The only place they can go...Africa.
Sorry to tell you, Mr Herriot, but your mother sounds like an ignorant resentful jerk. There is nothing redeeming about this woman. But she’s your mother, so go ahead and lionize her in your mind. I don’t think you will find many others feeling the same way.
Smells like bullsheiss to me.
Although it would explain why this liberal is nuts.
I hope the kids are all well now.
I’m throwing the bullshit flag on this one. This is so deep: 15 yard penalty and loss of down.
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Under further review, Intentional Targeting, Unsportsmanlike Conduct, EJECTION.
Yeah. Right. This is really believable...
If I’m not mistaken, there was once an episode of “Sanford and Son” when Lamont suddenly got the idea that pork had to be avoided. Sanford thought he was nuts.
I’d like to think that, but I’m not so sure.
There are a lot of leftist idiots out there.
Tough, growing up with a mother who is severely mentally ill.
So I guess “Little Black Sambo” was also not on the reading list?
What a loon.
His mom was a horrible mother suffering a crippling mental illness.
He has my pity.
Wow. Did they ever get her?
bump
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