‘Not a safe space’: Black cast members boycott Dickens Christmas Fair over failure to prevent racist, sexist behavior

SF Chronicle Datebook ^ | December 6, 2021 | Erin Feher

[C19fan]

For her first Great Dickens Christmas Fair in 2015, LaToya Tooles fashioned a gown out of dollar-store hula hoops and a tablecloth. A friend had invited her to the annual event, a festive re-creation of 19th century London inspired by the works of Charles Dickens that has been running in San Francisco for nearly 40 years.

Almost as soon as she arrived at the antique winter wonderland, she joined the revelers on Fezziwig’s dance floor and didn’t stop waltzing for hours.

“I met some of my greatest friends at the Dickens Fair,” says Tooles, who went on to join the event’s volunteer cast, taking on bigger roles and more responsibility each year.

[wardaddy]

But neo cons like Shapiro and Levin and posters here say tossing the south under the bus will satisfy the woke

Nothing does

Robert e Lee

Bedford Forrest

Lincoln even

Jefferson

Washington

Now Dickens who championed against child labor

Eff the woke and never apologize

[Albion Wilde]

There were a few... prominent and successful blacks in London during this time ... but not many. My favorite example was the black circus entrepreneur Pablo Fanque whom the Beatles made famous in their song “Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite”.

..............................Pablo Fanque

[HYPOCRACY]

He was a Moop.

[Mark17]

I remember, Highway 37 could be a treacherous highway. I saw, on Google earth, the golf course. I see they built houses right in the middle of the golf course. Strange. I wonder if any errant golf balls hit any houses?