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To: pansgold
The sad thing is...Bannerman wrote this story about the little children from INDIA that she admired. It was never even about Africans at all.

It seems like anything that they can shout “racism” about, they will. Even if it is completely unrelated.

9 posted on 09/14/2009 7:20:54 PM PDT by dianed
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To: dianed
It was never even about Africans at all.

The tigers should have been the clue. No wild tigers in Africa.

Oh, yeah, and when the tigers melted, they turned into "ghi". That's as Indian as it comes.

13 posted on 09/14/2009 7:24:19 PM PDT by thulldud (It HAS happened here!)
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To: dianed

Yeah well, you think a few little details...like the truth...are going to interfere with the book burners of the left?


18 posted on 09/14/2009 7:29:24 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
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To: dianed; pansgold

>>>Bannerman wrote this story about the little children from INDIA that she admired. It was never even about Africans at all.

Very true. However at least as published in the US, the artwork changed the story. The illustrations were not of a child from India, but instead of a thick-lipped googley eyed child in blackface paint. A common racist caricature of the time.

The story by itself is as harmless as most any other fable. But how it’s been used has tainted it to many.


34 posted on 09/14/2009 8:40:30 PM PDT by tlb
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