Chapter 50 Resend Little Reader Newsletter Thirteen

Dear children: Summer vacation is here again, your study plan has already been set! Don't children love reading storybooks?Especially younger children prefer to read or listen to stories about animals, such as Brother Pig and Sister Rabbit... When we see and hear these stories, don’t these animals immediately pop up in our minds? Is it a fat, fat, bouncing, kind and lively image?How lovely are these images. Children all over the world are the same, whether they are in China, Britain or the United States, they all like to read various paintings and calligraphy that combine vivid and interesting stories with the characters of animals.But in the United States, which claims to be free and democratic, their writers cannot freely write books, and American children cannot freely read animal stories!They banned the books, not because the animals in them behaved badly, but because the color of their fur was black.

Do you feel weird, kids?The thing is like this: Not long ago, in Alabama in the southern United States, there was a children's book called "The Wedding of the Little Rabbit", which told the story of a little black rabbit and a little white rabbit getting married. This greatly angered some MPs, who proposed in the State Legislature that the book should be banned.Later, because this proposal was ridiculed by people all over the world, it was temporarily stopped.In late June, some lawmakers in the southern state of Florida proposed to ban a children's book called "The Three Little Pigs".In this story, there are three little pigs, white, white and black, who were caught by a ferocious wolf.

The little black pig is the smartest, and it took advantage of the wolf's surprise and ran away. The little flower pig and the little white pig were eaten by the wolf before they could escape. It is extremely absurd and ridiculous that such two simple children's books will be requested to be banned in the grand state assembly.But from this incident, it also reflects a very important issue: that is, how serious the discrimination and persecution of some white people in the United States against the more than 17 million black people in the country has reached!This really makes all the people in the world who love freedom, equality and justice feel extremely angry!

The status of blacks in the United States is lower than that of whites in their own country.They were subjected to various restrictions in life, and were also severely persecuted.For example, they cannot ride in the car with white people, go to school together, hold meetings together, live together, eat together... In short, they are "segregated" and they must avoid white people and give way to white people in terms of all living rights.If they don't, they will be persecuted in the cruelest way, and they will be shot, hanged, burned to death, not to mention beaten and scolded by white people without any protection.Because the white people in the United States think that the black people have dark skin, so their intelligence is also low, saying that they are an inferior race, and they must not be equal to the white people and live in the same place.

According to this "principle", the two children's books mentioned above, in the eyes of some Caucasians, have made unforgivable mistakes.How dare the little black rabbit marry the little white rabbit?How can the little black pig be smarter than the little white pig?Anyone with black fur is an inferior animal! Children, Chinese children living in a free and happy environment, can you imagine such unreasonable things in the world? The colonialist bloc headed by U.S. imperialism regards black Africans and colored people other than whites as targets of their discrimination and persecution!Children, some of you have not caught up to see the lawless atrocities of the colonialists on our land and territorial waters; or you can’t remember what you saw... But, don’t forget, US imperialism still occupies Oh, our territory Taiwan!

Now, in Asia, such as Japan, in Africa, such as Uganda... and many other places, the people of these countries are constantly fighting against the discrimination and persecution of the colonialists.We firmly believe that all oppressed people will throw the devil riding on their heads to the ground.But they will encounter many difficulties and setbacks on the road of struggle. We must not let the black children in the United States, as well as children in Japan, Uganda and other places, feel helpless and lonely in their arduous struggle. We must think of them all the time, we must respond to every call to oppose war and defend peace, and do our part in promoting international unity and friendship... When is the power of peace greater than the power of war? When the imperialist colonialists die down and retreat, the oppressed nation will stand up. Even the little black rabbits and little black pigs in American children's books can freely talk to children on the pages of the book. Isn't it a great pleasure to meet you?

Let's talk about it next time!I wish you happiness. Your friend Bing Xin July 7, 1959, Beijing. (This article was originally published in No. 15 of "Children's Age" on August 1, 1959, and later included in the collection of novels, essays, and poems.)