[pansgold]

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Little Black Sambo, by Helen Bannerman

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[classified]

Wow! I don’t remember Little Black Sambo being such a long story!

[Responsibility2nd]

That sound you are hearing is liberals getting all wee-weed up as they read this again.

[Sudetenland]

It’s not racist, it tells the tale of how Sambo out smarted the tiger is the hero of the tale. As ever with liberals, the big complaint was about symbols, not content.

[stubernx98]

I recall the Sambos resturant that served pancakes. They didn’t make it through the PC days of the 70’s.

[dianed]

The sad thing is...Bannerman wrote this story about the little children from INDIA that she admired. It was never even about Africans at all.

It seems like anything that they can shout “racism” about, they will. Even if it is completely unrelated.

[Sudetenland]

Saved a copy of it before the libs throw a tantrum and force its removal...you got to know it’s coming...oh the outrage.

[stayathomemom]

We had the story on a children’s record. I bet it is still in my mom’s basement. I still remember the line: “...a big pool of melted butter.” I think it had something to do with the tiger running round in circles, but I don’t remember!

[CatoRenasci]

I remember the book when I was a lad in the very early '50s, and it was a favorite of mine. When my daughters were small, it was still in print. I have a copy with the original illustrations that I picked up then. My kids enjoyed it a few times, but it was never a favorite of theirs. A pity that it's considered so politically incorrect -- it was indeed about India, as the reference to the tigers and ghi (for butter) should make obvious to anyone but (as Lord Russell put it) an unusually stupid child of ten.

[Domandred]

Thanks for the tip...and the website. My bandwidth getting a workout atm. LOTS of books to DL.

[aruanan]

Little Black Sambo and his parents showed grace, love, and intelligence. What in the world is so bad about that? That they looked like someone’s idea of what a stereotypical Negroid person would look like? Well, there are any number of groups in Africa right now that an anatomically exact depiction of them would be called racist by morons here in the States whose lack of experience would fail to recognize an accurate depiction of a true genetic trait that is characteristic of a particular tribe.

[Liberty Valance]

~placemarker~

[Mike Fieschko]

Next we'll see The Five Chinese Brothers.