That’s not a good question.

Mark Summer at KOS writes, “Walter Dean Myers asks a really good question. ‘Where are the people of color in children’s books?’”

By which it becomes clear in more quoted matter he actually means just black people.

But that’s not actually a good question in a nation still about 70% white (including Hispanic whites) and not much more than 10% black.

And disproportionately many black homes are not really into child care that much, anyway.

And not actually literate.

But this is a good question.

Why do the most popular children’s books feature light brown Hispanic characters with dead straight black hair, not white kids?

Who's up for putting pre-Kennedy racial restrictions back on immigration to the US?

The people who passed the Hart-Celler Act either lied about its eventual consequences or were foolishly mistaken, or really didn't care so long as they could sell it to America.

But the impact threatens to be exactly what its opponents feared and said at the time.

Immigration, if it continues as it has lately gone, will ultimately "brown" America and put American euro-whites in the minority, perhaps by the middle of this century.

We could still prevent that, for the good of future America and future Americans, of course.

And we could make other changes, too, to encourage white people to form and maintain strong nuclear families with more children than mere "replacements."

What white politician at all concerned for his career would dare suggest such a thing?

How many ordinary white people would dare to say the prospect of a brown American future makes them very uncomfortable?

But it's true, all the same.

There are lots of true things people just don't dare to say, right here, in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Also prescient was Enoch Powell.

Rivers of blood