![]() Seuss - used his incredible talent to instill in his most impressionable readers universal values we all hold dear." Then-President Barack Obama lauded the author in 2016, saying, "Theodor Seuss Geisel - or Dr. While Seuss’ body of work has been called “dehumanizing and degrading” to Black, Indigenous, Jewish and Muslim people, and people of color, according to the survey, he is praised for promoting universal values in children. “If I Ran the Zoo” also features two men from Africa who are shirtless, shoeless and wearing grass skirts while holding an exotic animal. In “If I Ran the Zoo,” a white boy holds a large gun while standing on the heads of three Asian men. ![]() In “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” a white man is shown holding a whip above a man of color and the elephant he's riding on. Portrayal of and references to Black characters relied heavily on anti-Blackness and images of white superiority, the study found. ![]() A 2019 survey of Seuss’ works found that just 2 percent of human characters were people of color - 98 percent were white. ![]()
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