I agree, officially changing an old nursery rhyme is dumb at this point, but I'm sure the concept is valid. Children's stories weren't always as innocent as they appear. When broken down, Baba black sheep may have been satire. Even on the surface, the title alone hints the tale shares an effect similar the doll test, used during brown vs. BOE. If this were something written today, I wouldn't doubt it's innocence, but this is a story told during American past times. Personally I'm too old for nursery rhymes, and don't care, but the article clearly stated others were offended. It'd make sense to slightly alter the title/tale to accommodate those folks.
Baba Rainbow sheep sounds more appealing to children any way.
Do I think racism is taken to far? Yes, but not because of BaBaBlack. I've taken a note of the activist on the raise. They often pick fights, searching for issues which are hardly problematic. Rather then directing focus to all forms of injustice, people like Al Sharpton claim themselves "black representatives" and direct attention towards synical nonsence. Famous speaker Kalid Muhammad, paraded in front of Johnny Cockrine's(sp?) office, because he believed Johnny was a sellout. Bill Cosby suggested minorities stop using race to blame their issues, and work on creating better conditions for themselves/. People Protested against Bill - they were idiots.
sixstringedstress said:
Does anyone agree with me when I say that racism is on its way out? I think the only think keeping racism alive is bumper stickers that say "racism" because it paints this picture that there is still a great urgency to destroy racism. MLK's dream is just about realized, we all have friends of all different races. Men and women of all different races earn diverse degrees of wages and hold almost an unlimited array of jobs, thanks to the internet anyone can own a business. The "Eracism" groups want to keep the idea of racism around to maintain their status quo, that is to say if there was no more racism, they wouldn't have any more bumper stickers to make.
In some ways I agree. They're still many racist out there. I hear the KKK is making a come back (no joke). However in future, i don't think skin tone will be an issue. Ultimately they'll be a new form of prejudice. I don't know if many of you are familiar with the movie Gattaca. It was mainly about gene sequencing, but a major part of the film involved DNA testing. Most characters in the movie depended on DNA rather then ability/appearance as far as judgment was concerned. The director did a good job, pointing out most people weren't able to analyse others based on appearence, because they were so use to judging each other through DNA samples.
Now recently in paper, I've read about an idea, to implant micro organisms in finger tips, which can contain credit information, date of birth, name, etc. This got me to thinking, maybe in the future people wont judge others by the color of their skin. that type of ignorance is probably growing out of style and isn't accepted in most of society... but it's hard to believe segregation will disappear altogether. It may not reappear through something advanced as DNA testing or sequencing, but I'm sure it'll remain present in some form.
