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A high school planned to perform ‘Tarzan.’ It was canceled after parents raised concerns about racism.
Washington Post ^ | December 10, 2019 | Allyson Chiu

Posted on 12/11/2019 6:29:44 PM PST by EdnaMode

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To: EdnaMode

If I recall, Tarzan was about a boy who was lost in the jungle. I doubt it is racist, sexist or anything else. Liberals, it is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER. It couldn’t be done in reality.


21 posted on 12/11/2019 7:02:42 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: EdnaMode

Tell them a tranny girl is gonna play Tarzan and some fag will be Jane, problem solved.


22 posted on 12/11/2019 7:03:17 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: EdnaMode
"troubled by the possibility that nonwhite students would appear as apes onstage"

And that's racist because? I've never met or heard of a living person today comparing non-white people to apes. There was one guy about 100 years ago who did. Now everyone accepts that stereotype as though everyone believes it.
23 posted on 12/11/2019 7:06:04 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I think you are wrong about that.


24 posted on 12/11/2019 7:11:42 PM PST by anton
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To: workerbee
You didn't get the message about the Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs. It was a play to promote polyandry (1 female many husbands) or a play promoting Pedophilia as the 7 dwarfs were teens... 😋

That was why it got passed by the PC Nannies...

25 posted on 12/11/2019 7:15:56 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: EdnaMode
Baiocco added that the parents were also troubled by the possibility that nonwhite students would appear as apes onstage.

Forgive me, but I find that hilarious. Is that how they were cast in the play?

26 posted on 12/11/2019 7:18:47 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: EdnaMode

So tired of snowflakery. My kindergarten class performed Little Black Sambo. In blackface. People today would rend their clothes and gnash their teeth feigning offense.


27 posted on 12/11/2019 7:24:56 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: LouieFisk
I wonder if you have to gawa before you can ungawa.

New York just banned gawa conversion therapy, so ungawa has been pushed to unsafe back alleys.

-PJ

28 posted on 12/11/2019 7:26:44 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: EdnaMode
The reason for the abrupt change? Two parents complained about racism. “The concerns were over the original story line behind ‘Tarzan of the Apes'

The inbred leftists have obviously never read the series of Tarzan books.

29 posted on 12/11/2019 7:27:18 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Political Junkie Too

We need to make gawaing safe and rare.


30 posted on 12/11/2019 7:27:59 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: bk1000

> My kindergarten class performed Little Black Sambo. In blackface.

No judgeship for you!
May have a Governors spot available though.


31 posted on 12/11/2019 7:34:11 PM PST by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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To: Scrambler Bob
Years ago, Kanadahar replaced 'straight dollar bills' with 'loonies'.

Oops! Here's a proper Canadian looney:

The Canadian loonie replaced the Canadian dollar bill in 1987. Another loonie was merely a fifteen year old for most of 1987. Little has changed.

32 posted on 12/11/2019 7:37:55 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Deplorable American1776

Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs has been re-titled.
Climate Crisis Melanin Challenged and the 7 Little People.


33 posted on 12/11/2019 7:38:22 PM PST by Do_Tar (I wish I was kidding.)
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To: bk1000

little black sambo was from india ...


34 posted on 12/11/2019 7:39:30 PM PST by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Do_Tar

Little Black Sambo, in hard copy, is present in our children’s and future grandchildren a library. The girls love it.


35 posted on 12/11/2019 7:39:36 PM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: gathersnomoss

It is so hard to believe that we used to have a restaurant chain called Sambos OMG can you imagine that today!!!


36 posted on 12/11/2019 7:41:30 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: EdnaMode

I think Twelfth Night will be a problem too. Let me explain…
Twelfth Night is by William Shakespeare. In the name William there are 7 letters. If you add 7 (William) to 12 (Twelfth Night) you get 19.
We all know of course that 19 is a racist number.
Louis Farrakhan from his speech at the “million” man march:

“There in the middle of this Mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia, as slaves. In the background is the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorial. Each one of these monuments is 19 feet high. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, Thomas Jefferson the third president, and 16 and 3 make 19 again. What is so deep about this number 19? Why are we standing on the Capitol steps today? That number 19, when you have a nine, you have a womb that is pregnant, and when you have a one standing by the nine, it means that there’s something secret that has to be unfolded.”


37 posted on 12/11/2019 7:43:26 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: EdnaMode
Baiocco added that the parents were also troubled by the possibility that nonwhite students would appear as apes onstage.

Words fail me......

38 posted on 12/11/2019 8:09:46 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Tiger butter...


39 posted on 12/11/2019 8:13:31 PM PST by Rio
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To: EdnaMode
...Baiocco added that the parents were also troubled by the possibility that nonwhite students would appear as apes onstage...

No one is going to be forced to play an ape.

Is it racist if nonwhite students volunteer to play apes?

40 posted on 12/11/2019 9:42:12 PM PST by CurlyDave
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