The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss museum is replacing part of its mural due to complaints of racism due to the stereotyping of a Chinese character.
A Massachusetts museum is replacing part of a Dr. Seuss mural after three authors threatened Thursday to not attend an event at the museum due to the mural portraying a racial stereotype of a Chinese man “with chopsticks, a pointed hat and slanted slit eyes.”
The mural at the Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum in Springfield, Mass., will replace part of a mural that features a Chinese character from Seuss’s first children’s book called, “And To Think That I Saw That on Mullberry Street.” Authors, Mo Willems, Mike Curato and Lisa Yee signed a letter to explain why they are declining an invitation to the now-canceled Children’s Literature Festival Oct. 14, reported Fox News .
