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Slack.com slash DHQ. Here's a new book I'm sure you'll want to buy and read unless you

prefer to just stick a fork in your eyeball for free. The book by Philip Nell isn't

titled, Was the Cat in the Hat Black, the hidden racism of children's literature and the

need for diverse books. I know that fork in the eyeball is looking pretty good, isn't it?

In a wonderful article over at NewsBusters, Tim Graham delves deep into Philip Nell's

philosophy. Nell apparently believes that there may be racism hidden in our favorite children's

books and that if he can ruin our enjoyment of those books, he might be able to pick up

a couple of books and some publicity without ever having to do anything worthwhile. Thus,

Philip Nell asks the all-important question, Is the cat in Dr. Sous's cat in the hat books

really a black person? If you answered no, you knucklehead, he's a gray and white cat,

and you may not be an English professor like Philip Nell. You see, Philip Nell is an

English professor and so he has enough free time on his hands to look deeper into the

substrate of the cat in the hat books. He says the cat's top hat and white gloves show

that his character has its roots in minstrelsy, the practice of white performers pretending

to be black in order to entertain people instead of writing useless books about the cat

in the hat. Now, to me, the question of whether the cat in the hat was really a black person

seems simple. If you remember the story, the cat in the hat bursts into the home of two

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