Dr. Seuss Books Can Be Racist, But We Still Keep Reading Them : Code Switch : NPR

But some of Seuss' classics have been criticized for the way they portray people of color. In And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, for example, a character described as Chinese has two lines for eyes, carries chopsticks and a bowl of rice, and wears traditional Japanese-style shoes. In If I Ran the Zoo, two men said to be from Africa are shown shirtless, shoeless and wearing grass skirts as they carry an exotic animal. Outside of his books, the author's personal legacy has come into question, too %u2014 Seuss wrote an entire minstrel show in college and performed as the main character in full blackface.