[dog breath]

My mother had to remove, “Little Black Sambo” and “Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby”, from her school library years ago. I thought that these were classics of children's literature and thought those removals were unfair. A note put on the book about changing attitudes, would of sufficed.

[heartwood]

My library has a gorgeous new edition of Little Black Sambo. Not the old golliwog illustrations.

http://www.amazon.com/Story-Little-Black-Sambo/dp/1929766556/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250970645&sr=8-9

[LostInBayport]

My mother had to remove, “Little Black Sambo” and “Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby”, from her school library years ago. I thought that these were classics of children's literature and thought those removals were unfair. A note put on the book about changing attitudes, would of sufficed.

I used to watch Charlie Chan on the late late movies as a kid and loved them, but they never came out on DVD for the longest time. It turned out that the wife of some 20th Century Fox bigwig was Asian and Oh-Fended by the movies, so they were not released on DVD or shown on Fox Movie Channel.

Until someone got the rights to the post-Fox movies. They included a disclaimer like your mother had to about how in times past it was considered appropriate for caucasians to play Asian roles. Very politically correct and very absurd.

That set made so much money that Fox released all of their movies on DVD very shortly thereafter. And with no disclaimer. But the last time they had a marathon on FMC, it was preceded by a liberal hand-wringing session with 'experts' and 'scholars' on Asian culture.