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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Would it just be tacky as heck to point
out that the story of “Little Black Sambo” was about an East Indian
boy? Where did you ever see a tiger in </span></font><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Alabama</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>? Too bad about that PC stuff, ruined a good book once people
started taking offense. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Matter of fact, probably the first movie I
ever saw was “Song of the South”, played in Kinzua at the Community
Center – perhaps 1945 or so. My all time favorite movie and you have to
get a copy from a European source if you want to watch it today. Think I will. So
there.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I have to say, much as it pains me, that
my grandfather, who probably never saw many black people growing up in </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Jackson</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>County</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> and only one Asian that I
know of, was a bigot. Who knows where he got that! Fortunately, my parents
somehow protected us from his behavior, or explaining that it wasn’t
right, so we grew up differently. Just sort of middle class white bread
unintentional racist. But, we got over it. Helps to have all sorts in the
family tree. . . and to dinner. . .</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Pat (in </span></font><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Tucson</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Connie Guardino<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:57
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [or-roots] Little
Black Sambo 1946</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>There were no black people in Grants Pass when my
mother was growing up. There is a "Black Sambo" story told about her:
The first time she ever saw a black person, she asked: "Why does that man
have shoe polish all over his face?" I forget now how old she was, but she
must have been quite young. I also grew up in Grants Pass, and didn't know
about blacks or hispanics until we moved to California for a brief period of
time. I knew about Chinese because of neighbors. Your wife died in 1993? She
was terrified by black people for the rest of her life? That seems mighty
strange, as she would have lifed through the civil rights movement and should
have had enough exposure to blacks to know the majority of them aren't going to
put anybody in a "stew pot!"</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Cecil Houk wrote: </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The following is <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>NOT</span></b> PC.</span></font> <font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>The story of "Little Black Sambo"
is no longer allowed in this country, but it was very popular in the
1940's. Not only in the USA, but also in Japan.</span></font> <font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Prior to WWII Japan was a
"closed society"; no foreigners were allowed. The only exposure
to black people the Japanese people had was "Little Black Sambo" and
stories of African cannibals.</span></font> <font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>One day in 1946, a young girl was walking home from
school. She passed a field where American occupation soldiers were playing
baseball. One of them offered her a candy bar... he was black!</span></font> <font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>She envisioned herself in a big stew
pot!! She ran all the way home - screaming. She was terrified by
black people for the rest of her life.</span></font> <font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>I know this is true because she was my first wife.
She died in 1993, but not in a stew pot; cancer.</span></font> <img
width=92 height=136 src="cid:image001.jpg@01C453A4.25AEC850" border=0><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Midori Murakami1935-1993</span></font> <font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.</span></font>
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