[jaqalopes]

> All of the people who lived in the country of the Tigris and Euphrates were white. We don’t know how nor when nor where colored people first lived, though it is interesting to guess.

I guess you can read this as a funny, outdated text but I personally would not give it to my kid.

[mistermann]

I would show my kids how the good intentions in the foreword were unachievable (by today's standards) by the genuinely intelligent and educated adult author, because of their cultural conditioning.

It's like an exclamation mark on the initial point.