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To: Sherman Logan
The books on Tarzan, written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, were very much anti-racist. Tarzan wasn't “Lord of the Jungle” because he was white, but because he was raised by Gorillas.
51 posted on 12/08/2008 1:12:54 PM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed.... so how could it be Redistributed?)
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To: allmendream

It’s been a LONG time since I’ve read Burroughs, but I don’t remember him as being anti-racist. From what I can recall he shared the mildly racist viewpoint that was the conventional wisdom of the day.

Lord Greystoke was a superior human being because he was descended from English aristocrats. He was a gentleman by instinct, presumably genetically transmitted.

Blacks were generally background only, as I recall. The whites were both the villains and the heroes. Russians and Frenchment, in particular, seemed to inherit villainy.

But it’s been a number of decades, so don’t quote me.


54 posted on 12/08/2008 1:32:42 PM PST by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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