Seuss, himself, deserves that explanation. Seuss as he really was: a person affected by his time, but able to grow beyond it. It's important that viewers - especially children - know Dr. It begs the question, of all the images of this man's work, do we really need to show this one?īut only if it's displayed with an explanation of Seuss’s journey away from racism. An imaginative elephant named Horton (Jim Carrey) hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. With so few Asians being represented in children’s literature, it’s painful that one of the few images we do see is a cartoon stereotype. Even with Seuss’s adaptations, many people (myself included) wince at the updated caricature with its squinty eyes. The reconfigured character is now white and without a pigtail.īut in 2017, we’ve come even further. In 1978, Seuss acknowledged that the image should be changed. It includes an image of "The Chinaman," which was originally depicted with bright yellow skin and with a long pigtail. Seuss book "And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street," in front of a controversial portion of a mural in the Seuss museum in Springfield, Mass. The Republican A post-1978 version of the Dr.
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