“I have vivid memories of that poem and picture from when I was a very, very young stoat....you probably couldn’t get that published at all nowadays.”
Yeah, they sell it as a double feature with Little Black Sambo....
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LMAO!
Around here there used to be a chain of restaurants, much like Denny’s, called Sambos! They lasted up until around the early 1980’s as I recall, before they were Mau-Mau’d out of existence. It was all quite innocent, with pictures from the children’s book decorating the interior. It had been a successful venture while I was growing up, and I didn’t think anything of it in my youth because I hadn’t yet been told that it was “racist” to refer in a complimentary way to a popular children’s book that had to do with a particularly brave and virtuous young child, who just happened to be black.
I remember good pancakes and pretty, smiling waitresses at Sambo’s. Oh well.........