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To: BigEdLB
the Sambo’s restaurant chain

Just curious: How many people do you think know that the (excellent) little-kids' book Little Black Sambo is about a little boy in the jungles of . . . India?

Speaking of which, how many wokesters offended by the book or its name are even aware that there are no tigers in Africa?

I'm guessing about 0.00 East Indians in America are offended by it--since little Sambo is the hero of the story anyway.

30 posted on 09/20/2021 12:44:42 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: SamuraiScot

I used to eat Sambos. Pancakes!


33 posted on 09/20/2021 12:49:34 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: SamuraiScot

Even in the old Sambos restaurant the character was clearly from India. I remember from my childhood like it was yesterday, in Sambos restaurants in San Diego and Santa Barbara, the murals on the walls that encircled the dining area related the story. Yup, a tiger and an Indian kid with a turban.


35 posted on 09/20/2021 12:53:20 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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To: SamuraiScot
In the book Sambo is clever and outsmarts all the tigers trying to eat him using just his wits.

Other than being called black there is nothing to consider racist in that book. On the contrary, he's clever and generous. How is that racist?

46 posted on 09/20/2021 1:17:28 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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