'Ba Ba Black Sheep' Called Racist

Fox News ^ | Feb 28 2011

[Lazamataz]

Black sheep are on the endangered species list as some children in north Queensland learn to sing Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep.

The English nursery rhyme may have survived for 200-plus years but political correctness could finally put it out to pasture.

Some schools in Britain have banned the song for being racist, but Pelicans Innisfail Child Care allows children to sing about black sheep or rainbow sheep.

[hoagy62]

Whiskey...Tango...Foxtrot.

What else is there to say?

[paulycy]

Asking questions like that will get you on some serious lists, these days, mister.

Yeah, logic and marxism don't mix.

[MrB]

I think the black sheep are victims of discrimination
and deserve some sort of reparations from the cracker sheep.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Black people own the word "black," and use of that word by anyone else is racist.

Just like white people own the word "white."

[miss marmelstein]

Probably!

And one of my favorite short stories, the tragic Rudyard Kipling story “Ba, Ba, Blacksheep.”

[the OlLine Rebel]

“Black Friday.”

You are aware a stink was made about that this past year?

[ErnBatavia]

"You want poems?....I got poems...."

[screaminsunshine]

Calling Tarzan.

[COBOL2Java]

Men In Rainbow

[COBOL2Java]

Rainbow Forest Cake

[MrB]

Hilarious and sad at the same time,

this demonstrates the deterioration of the state of education in our country.

Public policy has been intentionally niggardly in properly educating the next generation.

[Brother Cracker]

It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 18267.

[paulycy]

I think the black sheep are victims of discrimination and deserve some sort of reparations from the cracker sheep.

50% of their wool proceeds to the children of black sheep forever, and majority roles in all sheep sports activities?

[Lazamataz]

Henry Ford said you can get his car in any color you want, as long as it was Rainbow.

[massmike]

...And I thought it was going too far when "Sambo's Restaurant" changed their name to "No Place Like Sam's"

A popular U.S. restaurant chain of the 1960s and 1970s, Sambo's, borrowed characters from the book (including Sambo and the tigers) for promotional purposes, although the Sambo name was originally a combination of the founders' nicknames: Sam (Sam Battistone) and Bo (Newell Bohnett). Nonetheless, the controversy about the book led to accusations of racism that contributed to the 1,117-restaurant chain's demise in the early 1980s. Images inspired by the book (now considered by some racially insensitive) were common interior decorations in the restaurants. Though portions of the original chain re-named themselves "No Place Like Sam's" to try to forestall closure, all but the original restaurant in Santa Barbara, California had closed by 1982.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Black_Sambo

[hal ogen]

I’m getting nervous. When I go to a restaurant can I still order my fish “blackened”? OOOOOH, the anxiety is eating me up!

[Lazamataz]

Have you ever just stared up, into the Rainbow night sky, with the little peckerwood-cracker-muther****er stars peppering it, and just wondered how we ended up here?

[Jack Hydrazine]

The UK should put out an announcement that all self-appointed black sheep of their family should turn themselves in to their nearest police precinct and be arrested on racism charges.

[Lazamataz]

You will find your answer in Metallica’s song, “Back in Rainbow”.

[dfwgator]

This is actually in Australia, not the UK. Speaking of Australia, are they going to force these Aussie icons to change the name of this album?