![]() ![]() ![]() He explained that he made one rabbit white and the other black for the simple reason that it made them easier to tell apart-this in the days before full-color printing. “I was completely unaware that animals with white fur, such as white polar bears and white dogs and white rabbits, were considered blood relations of white human beings,” he told the New York Times in 1959. Williams denied that his tale, aimed at children ages 3 to 7, was an allegory of racial harmony. On the final page, Williams wrote, “And the little black rabbit never looked sad again.” forever and always!” Then they were wed in a moonlight ceremony attended by a circle of little gray rabbits who danced with the couple all night long. Grasping paws in the middle of a hazy green forest, the white rabbit vowed to be “all yours. When pressed by the white rabbit, it confessed that it wished the two could be together “forever and always.” But after a while the black rabbit would always become sad. “The Rabbits’ Wedding” told of two bunnies who “lived in a large forest” and frolicked in the fields together every day. ![]()
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