> That reminds me of the chapter I was reading for my Early Childhood Learning Lab class. It was talking about selecting materials for the classroom and said something like: "Omission implies that certain groups have less value than others by not including their presence." Yeah, I'm too lazy to go look up the exact quote. Apparently, every single book I read to the children must include every racial group in the world, or I'm implying the groups not in the book have "less value".
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> Well, forgive me, but if I find a good book that shows only white people, I'm not going to exclude it from my curriculum. I wouldn't purposely exclude books showing blacks, Asians, etc, but I will not throw out perfectly good materials just because they have the so-called "omission bias".
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> Am I being racist, or just sensible?

You're being sensible.

In fact, all this stuff about having to have characters of many races (for no reason to do with the story whatsoever) is almost as annoying as the feminist types who say a book is 'sexist' because women aren't portrayed how they'd like them to be. (It's even more annoying when they make such comments about Shakespeare or whatever.)

Sorry, I'm getting off topic.