Three children's authors objected to the original mural at the museum in Springfield, Massachusetts, showing a Chinese man in a traditional peasant hat eating noodles with chopsticks from a bowl, taken from Dr. Seuss's 1937 book And To Think That I Saw it On Mulberry Street. Museum officials decided to go with safer images from Dr. Seuss instead, although Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno called the decision "political correctness at its worst."
Three children's authors objected to the original mural at the museum in Springfield, Massachusetts, showing a Chinese man in a traditional peasant hat eating noodles with chopsticks from a bowl, taken from Dr. Seuss's 1937 book And To Think That I Saw it On Mulberry Street. Museum officials decided to go with safer images from Dr. Seuss instead, although Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno called the decision "political correctness at its worst."…
