There’s a certain Cambridge librarian who could use a refresher course in manners. As Victory Girls Gail wrote here, Liz Phipps Soeiro rudely and ungraciously rejected a gift of 10 wonderful Dr. Seuss books from First Lady Melania Trump. Why? Well, she posted an awful lot of blather about privilege, education, and such. But what her little diatribe boils down to is that Dr. Seuss is racist. Yes, racist!

Another fact that many people are unaware of is that Dr. Seuss’s illustrations are steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes. Open one of his books (If I Ran a Zoo or And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, for example), and you’ll see the racist mockery in his art. Grace Hwang Lynch’s School Library Journal article, “Is the Cat in the Hat Racist? Read Across America Shifts Away from Dr. Seuss and Toward Diverse Books,” reports on Katie Ishizuka’s work analyzing the minstrel characteristics and trope nature of Seuss’s characters.

I don’t even know what to say about this other than, ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!!

It was a surprisingly short journey from Robert E Lee to Dr Seuss

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 29, 2017

Yes, it was. Super short. Even more so when you consider THIS from said “librarian.”

The Massachusetts school librarian who rejected Melania Trump’s book donation, saying Dr. Suess books are ‘steeped in racist propaganda’, dressed up as The Cat in the Hat two years ago.

Oh, gosh! Isn’t she cute?