Is VeggieTales Racist?: California State University Students Accuse VeggieTales of Perpetuating Racial Stereotypes

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Is VeggieTales Racist?: California State University Students Accuse VeggieTales of Perpetuating Racial Stereotypes



California State University San Marcos held a “Whiteness Forum” recently where they determined that the beloved Christian cartoon VeggieTales is racist. 


According to The College Fix, the group determined that “The Christian cartoon VeggieTales is racist because the villains are vegetables of color. The NFL is racist since most players are black and most coaches and owners are white. White women advance white supremacy when they support President Donald Trump.”


CBN News reports that the “Whiteness Forum” was organized so that participants can take “a critical look at whiteness.” In other words, the students participating in the forum were asked to evaluate popular things in culture and identify racism in them. 


According to The College Fix, the “Whiteness Forum” is an annual event put together to display student’s final projects in Professor Dreama Moon’s Communications 454 called “The Communication of Whiteness.”  


Reportedly, on of Moon’s students identified VeggieTales as a show which reinforces racial stereotypes. 


The female student who created the report commented on her project in an interview noting that evil characters in the cartoon tend to have ethnic, or more specifically Latino, accents, while the good characters sound white.


She stated in her project, “When kids see the…

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