Biden CANCELS Dr. Seuss: President bucks predecessors and omits author from his Read Across America Day proclamation after Virginia school system s drops iconic children s books because of racial undertones
President Joe Biden did not mention Dr. Seuss during his proclamation for Read Across America day bucking a more than 20 year trend
Presidents Clinton, Obama and Trump have all mentioned Seuss in conjunction with the day designed to encourage school children to read more
Biden s omission comes as a Virginia school district dropped author from its list
Loudoun schools say they have shifted the emphasis of the March 2nd day
District claim Research in recent years has revealed strong racial undertones
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He was a doctor who made house calls, millions and millions of them, and his unique and wildly popular prescriptions influenced the way generations of children see and understand the world.
Now Dr. Seuss is undergoing his own posthumous examination.
Twenty-six years after the La Jolla children’s book author died, some of his most beloved creations, including “The Cat in the Hat,” are being re-evaluated because of imagery that some consider racist.
The controversy comes amid a longstanding effort to correct a lack of diversity in children’s literature, which is itself part of the ongoing and often explosive debate about race in America.
Now Dr. Seuss is canceled: Virginia school system drops children s favorite from Read Across America day because of racial undertones in his writing
Loudoun schools spokesman Wayde B. Byard confirmed to The Washington Post that they have shifted the emphasis of March 2 Read Across America day
That means the day will not celebrate the much loved Seuss stories exclusively Research in recent years has revealed strong racial undertones, Byard said
That came following a 2019 report called The Cat is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, Anti-Blackness, and White Supremacy in Dr. Seuss s Children s Books
Read Across America Day had traditionally focused on Seuss books
Why Dr Seuss is cancelled: Some US schools won’t celebrate him in 2021
Is Dr Seuss cancelled? The best-selling author looks to follow in the footsteps of Mr Potato Head, who’s also been cancelled in 2021.
In the lead-up to National Read Across America Day it seems as though children’s book author Dr Seuss has been cancelled. The national day usually celebrates reading and Dr Seuss’ work on March 2nd.
However, due to the uncovering of his earlier works, the author of
The Cat in the Hat,
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and
Green Eggs and Ham won’t be celebrated this year in certain schools.