Diversity

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No: HPFGUIDX 40710

At 07:51 PM 7/2/02 +0000, Eloise wrote:
>If he's just there as a black kid and race is not an issue (for Scholastic, I
>presume) then why was the book changed to emphasise it?

OK, I've not been following this completely, so jump on me if I've missed 
stuff, but this jumped out at me.

We don't know why the book was changed.  Was it some editors position that 
it needed to be in there? Perhaps the word was ommitted accidently from the 
British version? Maybe a copy-ed somewhere slipped it in a fit of pique 
that there were no non-whites in the book. Who knows. Personally, I never 
even noticed until it was brought up in here. (That seems to happen with a 
lot of things about the books). I think maybe we're reading more into this 
than needs to be there. It takes away from the story, I think.

Charlene