[ConservativeStatement]

Those darn "milieu(s)," always getting in the way of peace and prosperity.

[Random Access]

Well then he should look at the President of Mexico who looks pretty white also.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Be careful what you ask for Mario.

You'll get books where all of the characters are Hispanic and gay.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Pander, pander, pander

[Gay State Conservative]

If “Mario” was back in his homeland everyone would look just like him

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Go back to Mehico and the main characters will be Mehican.

[skeeter]

These people are relentless.

[AnalogReigns]

Oh, give me a break. If they want “brown” kids in kids books, then they need to tell their parents not to leave Latin countries.

If I moved to Mexico, I expect I’d find it hard to find many blondes in kids books...boohoo!!!

[Chickensoup]

Are they kidding? There isnt a book created for kids especially textbooks that dont have the mandatory black brown yellow red and white characters.

[GeronL]

Oh Boy Mario, do they have a show for you...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2965956/posts

[jimfree]

You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You’ve got to be carefully taught!

[TChad]

Hey Mario, stare at this for a while:

He's not famous for his skin color.

[Vendome]

Well, that’s just rough there kiddo.

If you go to Espana you will see your progenitors are actually a bunch of white people with brown eyes. In fact, large portions of Spain were once dominated by the Moors and dem peeps is straight up white.

Got a friend who is whiter than me and of Mexican descent but, has Moorish blood in her.

[Chode]

then by all means, crack the whip on colored writers to write more colored books...

[OneWingedShark]

Hm, if only they taught history: the tail of Santa Anna and the Alamo comes to mind... followed by the tail of The Battle of San Jacinto.

[Psycho_Bunny]

“But Mario, 8, has noticed something about these and many of the other books he encounters in his classroom at Bayard Taylor Elementary here: most of the main characters are white. “I see a lot of people that don’t have a lot of color,” he said.”

8 year-olds don’t think that way. It’s taught to them by their racist parents and teachers.

[ViLaLuz]

I call BS. An 8-year old would not say that.

[Ezekiel]

I didn't get to the rest of the article because of the login, but the intro reads like it leads to an extremely sarcastic spoof of a hyper-ethnocentric world filled with superficial, entitled, easily-offended ingrates.

Unfortunately I suspect that this Mario kid has been programmed this way in real life.

[Jeff Chandler]

[FlingWingFlyer]

Geeez. Eight years old and already an ignorant little racist bigot. He’s going to have one hell of a career ahead of him as a murdering gangbanger.

[petitfour]

Capitalism is amazing. Maybe someone will write some books about pink and blue children going on adventures, and maybe someone will publish these books without pictures but with graphic descriptions of skin color. And maybe the millions of pink and blue families will purchase the books so it will be worth the cost of production for the publisher.