“But, because they had stars, all the Star-Belly Sneetches would brag, ‘We’re the best kind of Sneetch on the beaches.’ With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they’d snort, ‘We’ll have nothing to do with the Plain-Belly sort!’” ~Dr. Seuss
UCSD canceled their annual birthday party for Dr. Seuss (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) because of racial incidents on campus. They started with a black history month “Compton Cookout” where the planners invited attendees to “dress ghetto” and promised malt liquor, watermelon, and fried chicken. After that, there was a noose left in the library (honest mistake, just someone was just fiddling with string). And then someone put a KKK-style hood (pillowcase) over the statue of Dr. Seuss outside of the Geisel library.
I’d just been there! Right there! Taking pictures of that very statue! A racist could have been watching me and I would never have known it! We should have some way to identify racists. Maybe stars on their shirts? (It’s OK to hate the haters, right?)
Dr. Seuss would be so pissed about that hood on his statue if he were alive. Maybe no one read The Sneetches to them when they were kids. Or maybe they just thought it was about Gucci vs. Louis Vuitton. Probably.
