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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

0 posted 2020-03-02 11:06 PM

Listen up, you silly goose,
keep your hands off Dr Suess.
Keep your racist rhetoric to yourself
and stay away from my bookshelf
or The Cat in the Hat will visit you
and bring along a wrecking crew.
Politics is no excuse
for a grinch loke you
to steal Dr Suess.

Ida Werrett

[This message has been edited by Marchmadness (03-03-2020 10:12 PM).]

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

1 posted 2020-03-03 09:57 PM

I'll admit it...you got me Googling Dr. Suess. Wasn't aware this was even out there. Can only speak for myself here, I have many Dr. Suess embedded in my head, could prolly even point a finger at him for my love of rhyme I found at an early age. What I don't recall is taking anything racist away from those books.

I think the shaped perspective of society these days can find fault in anything, while in reality if you seek negativity in everything, that's exactly what you'll find. If you want to be be a victim, that's exactly what you make yourself. Don't take away Dr. Suess, give us a better example to look up to. A society that only tears down heroes and icons but raises up nothing better for us to wrap our heads and hearts around, is at least as evil to me as any ghosts they seem to be chasing ever could have been.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2020-03-03 10:12 PM

Thank you, Michael. You are so right.

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

3 posted 2020-04-05 05:16 PM

Doctor Suess never really made an impression on me, though I essentially (along with my wife) raised my kids in much of his world, and they loved him.

To each his own I guess . . .

j.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

4 posted 2020-04-06 05:06 PM

Working in a High School with high risk students, it was heartbreaking to me how many had never heard of Suess. So I brought in my daughter's collection and read to them. ~L

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2020-04-12 01:31 PM

No child should miss out on Dr Suess.

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