Posted on 03/23/2006 7:03:48 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
LONDON — Has anyone ever actually seen a rainbow-colored sheep? That's surely what a few British toddlers are asking. Teachers at nursery schools in Oxfordshire, England, have asked children to change the words of the song "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" to "Baa, baa, rainbow sheep" in what some say is an attempt to avoid offending anyone.
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As long as nobody can turn "white as a ghost."
Next I suppose Edward the Black Prince will become Eddie the Rainbow Prince?
Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Multi-Coloredness'
Jessie Jackson has been calling for the same thing for years.
People who think up crap like this have Shiite for brains.
There's a Brokeback joke in there somewhere.
What a perfect time for Andrew Dice Clay.
Must be a gay sheep.
I own a Rainbowhawks hat :-)
I own a Bruins hat, I don't know whats worse.
Two summers ago, while in Chicago I purchased a "Rainbowhawks" T-shirt and wore it to O'Hare for my return flight. Who's in the concourse? None other than the honorable Reverend Jackson and he looks at the shirt, looks at me, the shirt then me again with a nasty glare. I think he was offended by their powerplay.
I think the Black Prince actually was a friend of Dorothy, no?
"Children, today's lesson is about color. Did you know that some colors are bad? Well, they are. A color like Black is bad. We don't talk about it. We don't sing songs about it. Black is bad, kids. Can you say it with me? "Black is baaaaaaaad". Good. Now, let's sing a song about rainbow sheep, Okay?"
Pretty soon Crayola will have to replace "Black" as a color on a crayon to "The color that cannot be spoken".
Jeez.
A friend of mine in the UK told me that his daughter, who works for HM prisons, can no longer ask for black coffee. She has to ask for coffee with no milk.
From the BBC:
"They sing happy, sad, bouncing, hopping, pink, blue, black and white sheep etc and they also exchange boy and girl at the end of the rhyme. "
"This encourages the children to extend their vocabulary and use up some energy."
It's not quite as PC as the linked report infers, but it's still utterly daft
"Baa, baa, Afro-American sheep, have you . . . "
"Be careful when driving in the winter, and look out for that Afro-American ice."
I could go on all day.
sheesh. Next thing you know rainbow will be a baaad word b/c everyone will know what is Really being said.
If he were alive, I wonder what Pappy Boyington would have to say about this.
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