Comedian Michael Loftus calls on the absurd censorship to stop.
That year, Katie Ishizuka penned a 43-page study titled, Rethinking Dr. Seuss for NEA’s Read Across America Day: Racism Within Dr. Seuss’s Children’s Books & The Case for Centering Diverse Books in which the content of 50 of Seuss’s most popular books were analyzed.
Ishizuka co-founded the Conscious Kid Social Justice Library, a subscription service which sends its subscribers monthly shipments of titles featuring multicultural characters, and her report was an early indicator that progressives would seek to remove the beloved children s author from widespread circulation.
Ishizuka wrote that Black children may feel uncomfortable going to school on Read Across America Day because of its ties to Dr. Seuss. She explained that because that the famed children’s author had a history of drawing anti-Black, anti-Japanese political cartoons and advertisements that most people were unaware of, she wanted to
Erica Wright
Reading IS Fundamental.Â
That was the message of I See Me Inc.âs, 11th annual âReal Men Read: You Can Be Virtually Anything if You Can Readâ held via YouTube Livestream on Friday.Â
Organizers noted the event was different than past readings.
âNormally when we host this event, it is held in an auditorium, filled with boys and men using literature as a means to evoke conversation,â said Devon Frazier, founder and executive director of I See Me. âAt I See Me, we feel that it is very important that our boys see books in the hands of a man. We want our boys to equate literacy with success . . . Our boys canât be what they canât see.â
First, they came for Harry Potter: too few gay and transgender characters, apparently. Then, they came for Power Rangers. It turns out that, in one of the earlier series, the yellow ranger was Asian, the black ranger was black, and the pink ranger was female.