Dr. Seuss Enterprises, a private company, has chosen to respond to consumer desires while seeking to maximize the sales of their products in the long run in a capitalist free market. To this end, it has announced that it will no longer sell six individual children's books written decades ago by Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, because of the books' racist depictions of Asians and Blacks. This decision has engendered fury and cries of "political correctness" from the right — the same people who usually view the unfettered free market as the paragon of individual freedom. As is often the case, a bit of historical reality ought to be injected into this conversation. When I was a young man destined for a career as a physician and medical historian, my mother, an eighth-grade English teacher, presented me with two books from our home. They had been childhood storybooks read in the 1940s by my oldest sister. They were scribbled with my late sister's crayons. My mother told me to set these books aside because, in the future, she thought they would be the source of historical lessons. ADVERTISEMENT The books are "Little Brown Koko" and "Little Black Sambo." The first was a collection of stories written by Blanche… Read full this story
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