Publisher Of Children’s Books Blasted Over Texts Filled With Racial Stereotypes
Parents and members of the educational system in Minneapolis, Minnesota, are extremely upset by some books which were recently delivered to the school system from publisher Reading Horizons.
The books in question, which are intended for children, feature characters such as Lazy Lucy, an African girl, and Nieko the Hunting Girl, who is Native American and lives in a cave. The books also refer to Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of America, which is historically inaccurate.
And as if that isn’t bad enough, in a book entitled Kenya, the residents of the African nation are said to be:
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28 responses to Publisher Of Children’s Books Blasted Over Texts Filled With Racial Stereotypes
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tracey marie September 10th, 2015 at 16:13
xtians pretending to be christians to make a buck and pass on their bigotry.
Larry Schmitt September 10th, 2015 at 16:33
They’ll do well with the “Christian” home schooling crowd.
Larry Schmitt September 10th, 2015 at 16:45
This is what one of the school board members had to say when another board member suggested the publisher owed them a refund and an apology: “Another board member, Don Samuels, said the publisher should be forgiven, because the families of the nine African-American churchgoers slain by accused killer and white supremacist Dylan Roof forgave him.” Wow. Just, wow.
Mike September 10th, 2015 at 17:57
I’ve had co-workers tell me I should be proud of the stereotypical hunter, tracker, warrior, image associated with NA’s…I’ve replied “…maybe, but I have a PhD in physics, why don’t you see that…???”
Larry Schmitt September 10th, 2015 at 18:00
Because they don’t see you as an individual.
bpollen September 11th, 2015 at 04:30
Hey, Mato Nanji, forget the guitar, be proud that you are perceived as an uncivilized heathen!
Mike September 10th, 2015 at 17:16
Many White people just don’t get it…. and when I turn the tables on them like painting all White’s as gun crazed bible thumpers, or slave owners, land grabbing thieves, homocidal maniacs hell bent on spreading disease, famine, pestilence, and poverty, so they can have $2 gas, Iphones, or buy cheap Chinese slave made crap from the mall…they get angry.
Larry Schmitt September 10th, 2015 at 17:18
You mean all Messcans don’t look like this?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/Frito_Bandito.png
Budda September 10th, 2015 at 17:43
and all Italians are in the Mafia, all Irish are drunks, all French are rude etc.
Larry Schmitt September 10th, 2015 at 17:46
And all gay men have exquisite taste, and Scotsmen are misers.
Mike September 10th, 2015 at 17:49
Some Mexican stamps…ever hear of Memin Pinguin…???
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5662c61dc7aab16b5f2103a52fe0de366c9586daa9a2c0603384e929db6ca963.jpg
Larry Schmitt September 10th, 2015 at 17:59
Had to look it up. I guess racial stereotypes depend on where you are. Those comics would never fly in the US. I also didn’t know Mexico used the “dollar sign.” I guess there it’s the Peso Sign.
stormkite September 11th, 2015 at 14:04
And Mexico had organ grinders and organ grinder monkeys in the tourist traps much later than the US did. It’s a real live monkey in a little red velvet suit; no racial allusions at all. (They don’t have nearly as much anti-black racism as the US did, never having had nearly the forcible importation that we had. Mexico banned slavery decades earlier than the US.)
There were children’s books about monkeys as people. My niece grew up on Curious George and it’s the same thing. Get rid of the hundreds of years of racist art and crap, and monkeys are cute little critters when they’re not flinging poo….
Tommie September 11th, 2015 at 00:39
No, i haven’t that is disturbing!
rg9rts September 11th, 2015 at 07:34
And they get mad at Trump?
Mann T. September 10th, 2015 at 20:24
So this Bulgarian says to me. ‘You’re a Scotsman so what do youy say when someone is tight-fisted?” ”We say they are from Aberdeen or we used to. And so he asks, ‘What do they say in Aberdeen?” I don’t know’ I say. ‘What do say in Bulgaria?’ We say they are from J…(I forget a city in Bulgaria). ‘And what do they say there? I ask. They say you are from Scotland.”
bpollen September 11th, 2015 at 04:24
Not all Irish are drunks… some are in AA and some are dead…
(Just kidding my fellow Micks…)
FatRat September 10th, 2015 at 17:32
Their next book will be entitled Family Fun at the Fair.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kHfc_hSw0t4/Uv-b5DDmbhI/AAAAAAAAdLU/uLT4FEZIsiI/s1600/KKK+on+Ferris+Wheel,+1926.jpg
Larry Schmitt September 10th, 2015 at 17:46
Turn it up to full speed, they’ll go into orbit.
Mann T. September 10th, 2015 at 20:19
Boyz in the ‘hood want to meet them.
Warman1138 September 10th, 2015 at 21:21
Introduce the bottom hem to a bic lighter, flying flaming K’s.
Tommie September 11th, 2015 at 00:37
WTF! that is funny as hell, wonder if Trump’s dad is there?
bpollen September 11th, 2015 at 04:33
The good news is that almost all of them are dead now.
stormkite September 11th, 2015 at 13:57
THAT generation, yes. The young and the feckless, however, remain. (Mind, if they could get fecked a time or two they might be able to get out of bed and bedsheets…)
bpollen September 12th, 2015 at 02:18
Feckin’ A right!
Warman1138 September 10th, 2015 at 21:16
Stereotypes, like in those textbooks are an insidious form of racism, sneaking ignorance to make dull minds and deaden empathy. The publisher doesn’t deserve the business they’re in.
Tommie September 11th, 2015 at 00:43
Then they wonder why America has a hard time coming together as a nation!
rg9rts September 11th, 2015 at 07:32
Hey !!! Where is Sambo and Tonto?