[SML] The more things change...

[Chip Wood]

Back when I was a wee lad 1946, Disney produced "A Song of the South" 
where the lead human character was a very wise old black man  (he may 
have been a slave, but It's set after the Civil War) .  That film is 
locked in Disney's USA vault only to be seen in the EU and Asia.  I 
really don't know what the USA reaction would be today, but I didn't 
grow up to be a racist and my son and several grandchildren are black or 
mixed.  We have come to be extremely sensitive on both ends of the 
spectrum and somehow the golden mean "take it with a grain of tolerance 
because it not going to end the world" has been lost.  I grew up in 
segregated schools and the first black students at the U of Florida 
played football while I was there.  But my wife student taught at the 
local black school because she was the only one willing.  Believe me 
that school was NOT "separate but equal"

Yesterday a white professor was charged with correcting grammar and 
spelling  on a black student's paper as "discrimination".  I did that on 
every paper I graded regardless of anything- gender, race, religion, 
quality of paper stock, etc.

Chip 1

On 4/5/2016 1:50 PM, Joe D via Stagecraft wrote:
> "Randy Porter" <randy.1611 at gmail.com> said;
>>   What you don't understand is that by making a
>>   choice, the school is FORCING its view,
> Well stated.  For some reason, people have no problem censoring the school from doing things that view racism as OK.
> To illustrate why, suppose a production had several black characters in it.  Each of them is portrayed as stupid. Now, no one denies that stupid black people exist. But, if ALL the black characters in a production are stupid, it tends to send the message that black people are stupid.  If even one of the black characters showed intelligence, that would strongly work against that offensive message.
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