Can't post this on Reddit! Lolz!
Ok, I'm driving to work and my mind is wandering, and it suddenly occurs to me what progressives find offensive about the beloved children's book: Little Black Sambo (1899)
A rundown of the story: see if you can spot the offensive part(s)! Maybe I'll also translate this into "Ghetto Speak" for modern audiences :>
Read it here text only due to possibly nsfw images. (Bonus: Little Black Mingo!)
- Sambo's parents buy him some fancy clothes
1a. His mother (Mumbo) makes him a jacket and trousers
1.b His father (Jumbo) buys him shoes and an umbrella - He goes for a walk
- He meets a tiger, who steals his jacket
- He meets another tiger, who steals his pants
- He meets another tiger, who steals his shoes (and wears them on his ears)
- Tiger #4 steals his umbrella (who carries it with his tail)
- Then the tigers started fighting, and chased each other around a tree until they melted into butter.
- Sambo retrieves his fancy clothes and goes home
- Sambo's father finds the butter and brings it home for dinner
- Then Sambo sits down to dinner with his mother and father and they eat lots of pancakes with (tiger) butter.
The End.
The offensive part is: >!10 With 1b and 9 in second and third place!<
Lets see if the spoiler tags worked... well dammit all. <s> and >! didn't work, how to spoiler here?
Anyhow: the reason why is this: (spoiler mode if I could do it)
Black Sambo has a Father! Living at home! And he provides for his family!
What Black child will be able to connect with the Sambo character? It's FAR too unrealistic! Just because Black children can be as smart as White kids (says Uncle Joe) doesn't mean they'll be able to grasp the concept of having a mother AND a father caring for them. It's completely unrealistic.
And that's why it offends them! Hope I can add spoiler tags later :>
Oooo nice! But the hate for LBS predates the cancellation of our beloved Auntie. :/
A few years back I was helping my ex-girlfriend’s parents clean out their garage for a yard sale and I found a copy of the Little Black Sambo board game and a bunch of lawn jockeys.
Board Game Geeks has it covered! Looks... bad :o
It's about outsmarting thieving bullies, who fall to infighting.
They don't like it, because they know they're the "tigers" of the story.