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'Ba Ba Black Sheep' Called Racist
Fox News ^
| Feb 28 2011
Posted on 02/28/2011 6:51:22 AM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: education; liberalism; liberals; moralabsolutes; pcstupidity; politicalcorrectness; publiceducation
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To: Lazamataz
Whiskey...Tango...Foxtrot.
What else is there to say?
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:03:41 AM PST
by
hoagy62
(I am a optimistic pessimist. I am positive that the world is going to Hell.)
To: Lazamataz
Asking questions like that will get you on some serious lists, these days, mister.Yeah, logic and marxism don't mix.
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:03:49 AM PST
by
paulycy
(Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
To: paulycy; Lazamataz
I think the black sheep are victims of discrimination
and deserve some sort of reparations from the cracker sheep.
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:05:42 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: Lazamataz
Black people own the word "black," and use of that word by anyone else is racist.
Just like white people own the word "white."
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:05:56 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: Lysandru
Probably!
And one of my favorite short stories, the tragic Rudyard Kipling story “Ba, Ba, Blacksheep.”
To: Lazamataz
“Black Friday.”
You are aware a stink was made about that this past year?
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:07:26 AM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: digger48; Lazamataz
![](http://thisiswhyitsucks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/diceman.jpg)
"You want poems?....I got poems...."
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:07:31 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
To: Lysandru
To: Lazamataz
Men In Rainbow
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:09:23 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
To: Lazamataz
Rainbow Forest Cake
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:10:48 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
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.
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:12:10 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: Lazamataz
It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 18267.
To: MrB
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?
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:13:59 AM PST
by
paulycy
(Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
To: COBOL2Java
Henry Ford said you can get his car in any color you want, as long as it was Rainbow.
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:14:47 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Scott Walker: Please FIRE.... then APPOINT... then VOTE.)
To: Lazamataz
...And I thought it was going too far when "Sambo's Restaurant" changed their name to "No Place Like Sam's"
![](http://www.tommcmahon.net/images/sambosfull2.jpg)
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
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:16:31 AM PST
by
massmike
(DADT repeal: the Boy Scouts now have tougher membership requirements than the Army!)
To: Lazamataz
I’m getting nervous. When I go to a restaurant can I still order my fish “blackened”? OOOOOH, the anxiety is eating me up!
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:16:40 AM PST
by
hal ogen
(1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
To: MrB
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?
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:17:39 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Scott Walker: Please FIRE.... then APPOINT... then VOTE.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
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.
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:17:39 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: hal ogen
You will find your answer in Metallica’s song, “Back in Rainbow”.
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:19:27 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Scott Walker: Please FIRE.... then APPOINT... then VOTE.)
To: Lazamataz
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?
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posted on
02/28/2011 7:21:04 AM PST
by
dfwgator
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