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I'm afraid I don't know the answer, but I wanted to say I enjoyed reading the post. Imagine that being taken out of context - "I want the EXTREMELY racist book."
Might be an elusive book that can't be found online. But I agree with the above poster. This looks like good copypasta material.
As a librarian, I'm horrified to hear a public library would hold something like that. Props to you for recognizing it for what it was. I suspect it was published a few decades ago.
Sounds like one of the "Sambo" books.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Little_Black_Sambo
I actually Googled "white kid turns black" book, and this is the best answer the internet has to offer. BRB as I clear my browsing history
I remember finding this book in a public library back, like, 9 years ago. It was a children's book about a white kid and a black kid; I legit picked it up because the drawing of the black kid was the spookiest fucking drawing I have ever seen; have you ever seen a caricature that is so racist it is actually somewhat frightening? This was it.
Anyways, so then I turn it around, and on the back cover, the premise of the story unfolds. The white kid is racist towards the black kid and bullies him; so racist, in fact, that he eventually punches the black kid. Then, a patch of skin on his knuckles turns black.
And then it begins to spread.
Like, this was, I believe, an attempt to write a book about "Look, kids, if you act racist, bad things will happen!", but the message is so ass backwards that it comes across as "Look kids, if you touch a The Blacks, you will become one of them. You will become... infected."
It is horrible and nonsensical and I don't understand who wrote it or why and I NEED it so badly, if you have seen anything about this book please PLEASE tell me the name, Google just gives me examples of antiracist books and no, mister Google, I don't want the not racist book, I want the EXTREMELY racist book.
Thanks for the help!