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Tierra Williams moved to State College three years ago with her son and has actively engaged herself in the community since. Now, she is a candidate running for Ferguson Township Supervisor.
Williams has 1,598 votes in the primary election as of May 24 and is running against Lisa Strickland, who currently has 1,650 votes. The primary results will not be finalized until early June, and the general election will be Nov. 2.
Williams ran for the position during the primary elections as part of the joint slate, âOur Communities Canât Wait.â The campaign includes Penn State student and formerly incarcerated activist Divine Lipscomb, artistic director for FUSE Productions Richard Biever, and Penn State clinical law professor Gopal Balachandran â all of whom ran for State College Borough Council.
We have questions. We donât have answers, but we do have questions. Four of them, in fact.
1. Why are Republicans against private property rights? Conservatives have gone apoplectic because the estate of the late Theodor Geisel â better known as Dr. Seuss â announced it no longer will publish six of his 45-plus books because they contain depictions of people that his estate calls âhurtful and wrong.â Itâs an easy way for them to take a side in a culture war and rail against the so-called âcancel culture.â
When Christiansburg restaurant owner Marie March announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for the House of Delegates last week, she appeared in a video holding Dr. Seussâ âThe Cat In the Hat.â Meanwhile, Pete Snyder, a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, appeared in a video holding not one but two Seuss books â âOne Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fishâ and âGreen Eggs and Ham.
The six books are: What’s wrong with the books? Although Dr. Seuss is adored by millions around the world for the positive values in many of his works, including environmentalism and tolerance, some say several of those books have caused harm with how they depict people of colour.
In If I Ran the Zoo, for example, there are characters referred to as Africans who wear no clothes except for grass skirts and are drawn with ape-like features. Illustrations of African characters in Dr. Seuss’s 1950 book If I Ran the Zoo (Image credit: Dr. Seuss Enterprises) Another example comes from a book called
Anna Nordberg March 4, 2021Updated: March 5, 2021, 3:48 pm
Dr. Seuss children’s books “If I Ran the Zoo,” “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “On Beyond Zebra!” and “McElligot’s Pool” are among the books that will no longer be published because of racist and insensitive imagery. Photo: Christopher Dolan, Associated Press
When Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced on what would have been the author’s 117th birthday that it would stop publication of six of Seuss’ most problematic children’s books, the internet lost its collective mind.
On one end, educators and writers applauded the move as a thoughtful step to remove racist imagery of Black and Asian people from Dr. Seuss’ catalog and preserve the author’s legacy, which spans more than 45 children’s books. Others saw it as an alarming effort to cancel a beloved American figure.