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<title>Has Celebrating Dr. Suess’s Birthday Become Controversial?</title>
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<div class="b_mText " style="text-align: center;">“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”</div>
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<div class="b_mText ">“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”</div>
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<div class="b_mText ">“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”</div>
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<div data-priority="2">“Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.”</div>
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<div data-priority="2">“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.”</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;" data-priority="2">“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent!”</div>
<div style="text-align: center;" data-priority="2">“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”</div>
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<p class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3gpvc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3gpvc-0-0">Today is Dr. Seuss’s birthday. His books played a huge part in my life in helping me become a better reader. Dr. Suess books have been part of the <a href="https://people.com/books/dr-seuss-books-racist-problematic/">National Association for Read Across America Program</a> for over two decades.</span></p>
<p class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3gpvc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3gpvc-0-0">I read these books to my younger sister and to my two daughters who just adored and devoured his stories. </span>His books are poetic, funny, tongue-twisting, and downright silly.</p>
<p data-offset-key="3gpvc-0-0">These days, his books are now being considered racist because in this one <a href="https://www.distractify.com/p/dr-seuss-racist">article</a>, “researchers concluded that only 2 percent of all the characters in Dr. Seuss books are characters of color. What’s more, that the majority of the depictions of these characters were aligned with harmful racial stereotypes and tropes.”… Instead we need to become, “more culturally responsive and racially conscious.”</p>
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<p class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d7nl0-0-0">I get this. But really? What do children ages 2-7 know about race and color? Unless we make it a big deal about differences of skin color, it will always be the focus. I have to believe we are brighter than the color our skin. Integrity sees no color. Respect sees no color. Talent sees no color. Goodness sees no color.</p>
<p data-offset-key="d7nl0-0-0">The Bible even tells us we are made in God’s image and that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Let’s focus on that instead!</p>
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<p data-offset-key="d7nl0-0-0"><strong><a href="http://www.biblica.com/en-us/bible/online-bible/niv/psalm/139/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Psalm 139:13-16</a></strong> <sup>13</sup>For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. <sup>14</sup>I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works <strong>are</strong> wonderful, I know that full well. <sup>15</sup>My frame was not hidden from you when I was <strong>made</strong> in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. <sup>16</sup>Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.</p>
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<p data-offset-key="714br-0-0">Unfortunately, we are living in #cancelculture where if it doesn’t agree with one group, we outright remove it. This <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/01/us/loudoun-county-public-schools-virginia-dr-seuss/index.html">Virginia school</a> district is no longer emphasizing Dr. Suess books during #ReadAcrossAmerica. Look at what’s happened with #AuntJemima syrup and #MrPotatoHead, and countless other products.</p>
<p data-offset-key="714br-0-0">How do writers become better writers if they are not reading different books? We can’t change history, but we can definitely learn from it.</p>
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<blockquote><p>“Only you can control your future.”</p></blockquote>
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<p>One writer had a good point from this <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/26/695966537/classic-books-are-full-of-problems-why-cant-we-put-them-down">article</a>, “The point was, here’s what this book does well,” Saxena says. “Maybe they weren’t everybody’s favorite books, but they were good examples of … the craft of writing.”</p>
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<blockquote><p>“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”</p></blockquote>
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<p data-offset-key="714br-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eem6-0-0">For as long as I’ve known, today is </span><span class="diy96o5h"><span data-offset-key="eem6-1-0">#DrSeuess</span></span><span data-offset-key="eem6-2-0"> birthday and today is </span><span class="diy96o5h"><span data-offset-key="eem6-3-0">#ReadAcrossAmerica</span></span><span data-offset-key="eem6-4-0">.</span></p>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9se9t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9se9t-0-0">Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss!!</span></div>
<p data-offset-key="9se9t-0-0">References:</p>
<p data-offset-key="9se9t-0-0"><a href="https://www.distractify.com/p/dr-seuss-racist">Is Dr. Seuss Racist? Is Dr. Seuss Canceled? Racist Undertones, Explained (distractify.com)</a></p>
<p data-offset-key="9se9t-0-0"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/01/us/loudoun-county-public-schools-virginia-dr-seuss/index.html">Dr. Seuss books: This Virginia school district says it isn’t banning his books. On the annual Read Across America Day, it’s just no longer emphasizing them – CNN</a></p>
<p data-offset-key="9se9t-0-0"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/six-dr-seuss-books-wont-be-published-anymore-due-to-racist-imagery/ar-BB1e9Be8?ocid=uxbndlbing">Six Dr. Seuss books won’t be published anymore due to racist imagery (msn.com)</a></p>
<p data-offset-key="9se9t-0-0"><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/26/695966537/classic-books-are-full-of-problems-why-cant-we-put-them-down">Dr. Seuss Books Can Be Racist, But We Still Keep Reading Them : Code Switch : NPR</a></p>
<p data-offset-key="9se9t-0-0"><a href="https://people.com/books/dr-seuss-books-racist-problematic/">Dr. Seuss Books Deemed Racist in New Study | PEOPLE.com</a></p>
<p data-offset-key="9se9t-0-0"><a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/2432303/why-is-is-dr-seuss-racist-trending/">Why is ‘is Dr Seuss racist’ trending? (the-sun.com)</a></p>
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