Is Mulberry Street racist? You decide
The Aspen Beat,
by
Glenn Beaton
Original Article
Posted By: Big Bopper,
3/5/2021 10:24:17 AM
People of my generation learned to read with Dr. Seuss. Sure, there were some child-like hijinks in the doctor’s prescriptions but to many toddlers the rhyme and rhythm were music to the ears, tonic to the souls and tutors to the unschooled. Mostly, they were exactly what Dr. Seuss intended them to be – entertaining, mischievous children’s literature.
Dr. Seuss succeeded for nearly a century. In that time, millions of children learned to read and Dr. Seuss was awarded numerous prizes.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
smsnod 3/5/2021 10:43:41 AM (No. 715639)
He hasn't been cancelled yet, OP. But they are definitely trying to minimizing him.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
pmcclure 3/5/2021 10:45:28 AM (No. 715641)
How long will it be before patriotic Americans emulate Thudwick the moose and dump all of the elites taking advantage of them?
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bad-hair 3/5/2021 10:48:02 AM (No. 715645)
Doc Seuss always struck me more as a musician than a writer. The flowing keeps you going ?
He's the musician who writes the FUN songs and hey are not necessarily simple.
My piano teacher says if you find yourself in a room full of people and there's a piano in it nobody ever asks you if you can play Mozart Minuet in G. Of course you can but they want to hear some Boogie.
Because like Doc Seuss it's fun. PS I have a pretty good recipe for Green Eggs and Ham.
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OK, I know that before he was Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel had made some cartoons as WWII propaganda which could be considered offensive, but that was part of the war effort. I had heard a vague description of why the book "I Saw It On Mulberry Street" was supposedly racist, and the description sounded like they might have a case, even though I thought they were blowing it out of proportion.
However, I was not familiar with that particular book, so I followed the link to the Youtube video of it. I'm sorry, it is not racist. Does it use caricatures? Yes, but the caricatures of people of European descent are just as "offensive" as the non-europeans.
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jacksin5 3/5/2021 11:25:23 AM (No. 715696)
Now if the Seuss Foundation had quietly decided to stop printing several books in the collection, few would have noticed. But no, they had to have a Cancel Culture moment, dealing out the Race Card.
We as a nation, used to be taught our unadulterated History, so that we would learn from our mistakes, and hopefully not repeat them.
With no History, our children will make these mistakes all over again. Already Racism is rearing it's ugly head, with the POC's being the main offenders believing this will bring about Equality.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
marbles 3/5/2021 12:21:34 PM (No. 715752)
The last paragraph of the story says it all. Their intent is to burn down Western civilization.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
skacmar 3/5/2021 2:10:27 PM (No. 715834)
Sorry, but the "racist" pictures of the Chinese person and the Rajah are exactly what on may have seen in a National Geographic Magazine at the time that the book was written. The pictures are caricatures, meant to be cartoons and not exact representations of the people pictured. All people are represented the same in the book (and all Seuss books). If you took away the pictures of the Chinese person and the Rajah, what exactly is racist about the book? The pictures are accurate representations of what a Rajah and a Chinese person might look like.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jasmine 3/5/2021 5:04:09 PM (No. 715947)
Agree with #7. The Seuss "Chinaman" became the "China man" a long time ago to avoid accusations of "insensitivity."
The message in the book is one of inclusion. Kids are encouraged to imagine anything they like, and include anyone in it who might make for an even better adventure. As the imaginings became wilder, so did the characters. No was replaced for any reason other than to make the tale more preposterous. I have to wonder how many of the deciders have parented children. Silly books are FUN, and encourage children to read.
In the short period of time since Biden and the Democrats took office, Americans, their culture, their beliefs, and their character have been under relentless and increasingly gratuitous attacks.
I'm reminded a "scholarly" paper that Duke University published in 1996. It was called
"Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"
It illustrated that just because a writer can string together complex sounding sentences, that's not evidence the writer is making any sense or knows what he's talking about. Might be a good idea for folks to think really hard about how much sense some of these scolding scholars are making when their focus is on "discovering" ever more flaws in everyone and anyone who ever contributed to our culture.
Look up "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" and see if you see any similarities in how easily "Cancel Culture" arguments are given credibility without actually thinking them through.
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