tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post5954960105000695487..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: The Racism of Silent IndifferenceNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-84045731654619362772021-03-02T14:57:30.528-06:002021-03-02T14:57:30.528-06:00Even if Dr Seuss were an actual masterpiece -- it ...Even if Dr Seuss were an actual masterpiece -- it really isn't, it was just better than most other kiddie literature for a very long time -- it still wouldn't deserve a pass just because. Even the "Willy Wonka" movie was sensible enough to convert the pygmy Oompa Loompas into weird orange guys so as to dodge the obvious racism.<br /><br />When I was in first grade in 1974 or so, I read a biography of Thomas Jefferson. I have no idea when it was written or what sort of degenerate wrote it, but man, in retrospect it was probably the most racist thing I ever read. I'm pretty sure the thing was dripping with how the slaves were simply inferior to white men; for example there was a part where the slaves were told to tear down a shed but couldn't, so Thomas's dad tied a rope to the shed, tied the other end around himself, and pulled the shed down through sheer white superiority. At the time I took it as, "wow, Jefferson's dad was a weightlifter or something". In retrospect, it was an effort to corrupt an eager young mind with messages about black inferiority. (Joke's on you, latter-day Confederate a-holes; "The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine" had already persuaded me that black men are just normal folks like white people, with the exception that they let Rodney Allen Rippy hang out with them, even though he kept throwing basketballs at their heads every episode. Little jerk!)King Beauregardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04043228078537079759noreply@blogger.com