Posted on 02/26/2011 3:29:21 PM PST by naturalman1975
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.
Director Pam McLaughlin said some teachers sang the changed lyrics, and some children already knew the changes.
"We just go with whatever the children want," Ms McLaughlin said.
"The kids are just singing and having fun. Some sing black sheep, some sing rainbow sheep. It's just a song.
"We don't have anything that says, 'You have to sing it this way'."
The BBC reported in 2000 that Birmingham City Council had banned the song for being racist. It was later overturned after a backlash from parents.
The council said it had obtained the guidelines, which stated: "The history behind the rhyme is very negative and also very offensive to black people, due to the fact that the rhyme originates from slavery".
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They have black Lab’s or black horses or black whatever. Are they going to ban the word ‘black’ because it’s racist color ?????
So is it now Baah Baah gay sheep?
Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!
One for the master, one for the dame,
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.
Has VMA214 been informed?
These people are beyond belief. The only reason I can think to exonerate them is that they have probably never even seen a flock of live sheep, never mind had the muck on their boots. They probably think the rhyme was made by racist white people.
“The rhyme originates from slavery”
Are you kidding me? These people get more insane every day. Never in the furthest reaches of my imagination would I have ever associated this simple children’s rhyme with slavery.
Resist, Winston! Resist!
I guess the dog in “The Dambusters” is out of the question.
Haven’t the queers co-opted the rainbow there, yet?
Crikey...people have absolutely NO historical context anymore...they think everything is about slavery or is a reference to something that occurred in the last 50 years...the verse is from the Middle Ages, for pete’s sake...magritte
Are you kidding me??! Dear Lord, what’s next..the blackboard will be called “rainbow” board?
Haha, they go from racism to homophobia in one
seamless term and think nothing of it.
It is getting to where you can’t tell satire from reality. Reality is getting more absurd than jokes.
Doesn’t anybody have a grain of common sense anymore? Do these morons ever realize how ridiculous they look with this nonsense?
It was written before English people knew the 1st thing about black people! Now their culture is dominated by their presence.
What an evil perversion. Riches are a curse.
My best friend just told me the other day his wife is related to Robert Hanson of VMA215 (formerly VMA214), who was awarded the Medal of Honor in WWII. He went up against four Zeros all by himself and shot them all down. In one 17 day period, he shot 20 (that’s TWENTY) enemy planes down! Astounding.
He gave me all the documents they had on this to scan them for him...it was interesting to read...the invitation to the ceremony that they had in Boston, etc.
"The kids are just singing and having fun. Some sing black sheep, some sing rainbow sheep. It's just a song.
"We don't have anything that says, 'You have to sing it this way'."
How about if they sing, "Baa Baa black sheep, Ms McLaughlin is a lying whore"? After all you don't have anything that says you have to sing it one particular way...
Now kids sit “crisscross apple sauce” instead of “Indian style”.
Or 'pretzel style'.
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