The reckoning with Dr. Seuss' racist imagery has been years in the making

[snoball]

When I was a very small child there were traveling Negro Minstrels, we sang Old Black Joe in school and Mom read me the story of Little Black Sambo, and of course I read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. We never thought of any of that as racist at that time, merely descriptive.

 

[Artyczar]

Racial terminology is of course a cultural construction anyway. Around here, someone like Obama would not count as black. Neither do the remaining indigenous Khoisan people here think of themselves as black. But if this bloke emigrated to America, no doubt he'd get saddled with the term African-American, probably to his irritation:
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The paragraph and this comment: "The remaining indigenous Khoisan people"? (my underline) suggests Obama is indigenous to Africa. Obama is an America born in Hawaii. So I am closing this thread now. Enough has been said on this subject.