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Title: One star is too many for this horridly racist book.
Review: "When my mother was a little girl there were Indians in Minnesota-tame ones. My mother did not like them. They would stalk into the kitchen without knocking and sit on the floor. They would rub their stomachs and point to their mouths to show that they were hungry. They would not leave until my mother's mother gave them something to eat." This page is accompanied by an illustration of a Black woman-a slave-brandishing a broom, chasing three Indian people who are running away with stolen food. On another page there is this-"When my father was very young he had two dogs and a colored boy."-accomanied by an illustration of a young white man and a young Black man dressed in rags, a slave, walking behind him.I cannot even imagine why this racist little book-originally published in 1940-has been republished. The thought that a Black child or an Indian child-or any child for that matter-might pick up this horridly offensive book turns my stomach.
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