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Why one Cambridge school won't be accepting books Melania Trump sent it

Liz Phipps Soeiro at the Cambridgeport School thanks the First Lady for the ten Dr. Seuss books, but explains why the school won't keep them:

You may not be aware of this, but Dr. Seuss is a bit of a cliché, a tired and worn ambassador for children’s literature. As First Lady of the United States, you have an incredible platform with world-class resources at your fingertips. Just down the street you have access to a phenomenal children’s librarian: Dr. Carla Hayden, the current Librarian of Congress. I have no doubt Dr. Hayden would have given you some stellar recommendations.

Another fact that many people are unaware of is that Dr. Seuss’s illustrations are steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes. Open one of his books (If I Ran a Zoo or And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, for example), and you’ll see the racist mockery in his art.

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And you should feel bad.

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The librarian is pictured in a 2015 tweet in a Cat in the Hat outfit.

South Park predicting the future?

https://twitter.com/Cport_Special/status/572793892287991810?ref_src=twsr...

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Way to embody every single stereotype of Cambridge liberals.

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Apparently she wasn't authorized to accept or reject the books and was in violation of school policy about using public resources for political purposes.

Also, she's apparently dressed up as that infamous minstrelsy character Cat in the Hat. The letter was performative.

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/09/dr-seuss-is-racist_librar...

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As a Japanese-American, do Theodore Geisel's early caricatures of Japanese people and support for the internment camps offend you enough to support banning all of his later books?

And are you happy to have Ms. Phipps Soeiro, a non-Japanese person, speak for you on this matter?

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