Tintin cleared of racism
- 14 February 2012 10:47153429
- 14 February 2012 11:23153434I just had a look at the article above and I cant help but think that this African guy doing the legal pursuits would surely be better off chanelling his energy into something more worthwhile..rather than interfere with Tintin which is after all from another age.
So many books looking back have racial inequality but we mustnt interefere with them, abridge them to suit the current fashion, they capture the way the world was at the time...so you can in one way draw comparisons and marvel at the progress made.
Tintin is light hearted surely.
You might remember the story of the BBC football commentator the other week who had to apologise for using the term 'coloured' when referring to black players. On the BBCs Inspector Montalbano on saturday night they used the term in translation on the screen..referring to black people as 'coloured'
...confused dotcom
email: dover7@msn.com - 14 February 2012 11:36153436When clearing out my Parents belongings after my Mothers death I found the collection of little Black Sambo books I had had as a child. I am neither proud nor ashamed of having read them as a kid - clearly I would not buy them now and they are inappropriate given our raised level of consciousness, but they were of their time and we literally knew no better then. I am firmly anti-racist and I believe I am not racist - but I remember my young days when there was no attention paid to equalities of any sort and my mother and I being terrified when approached for directions by what I now assume to have been a perfectly okay guy but then, because he was very black and had big cut marks on his face ("tribal" as my mother said) we were afraid. We have come a long way in a few short years and should be proud of our achievements. Nothing will ever make the act of racism right, or make it right that people of all cultures and colours have been used as slaves - or indeed that women are trafficked and used in the sex industry, along with all the other inequalities and assaults on our human rights - but we can be proud that we are making efforts to make it right, right now.
- 14 February 2012 17:18153484I loved my book Epaminondas when I was young, you can still buy it, see:
http://www.sterlingtimes.org/epaminondas.htm
As far as I know it was/is not racist, and when about 8 I was given a black doll, although I was never keen on dolls and would much rather have had a train set (but never did) !---------------------------------------------------
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14 February 2012 18:19153509On a similar theme on Breakfast this morning some parents are refusing to read their children fairy tales, complete madness. From their website..........
"Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk are just some of the traditional fairy tales that have been read to children for years. But future generations might not know anything about them. It appears some parents have decided they're not suitable for young ears. Children's author Chris Priestley was on the sofa to tell us more."-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 14 February 2012 18:52153526What about Uncle Tom's Cabin, I used to love reading 'Tar Baby' to the girls when they were young
- 14 February 2012 19:00153527the biggest insult to someone black/coloured/african english nowadays is to be called an uncle tom.
not sure that topsy is a popular name either.