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By: janet

janet — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:24:45 +0000

epimandonos is the real original little black sambo
I read little black sambo as a kid and it was acutally the book that you are calling epimanconos.
I looked ‘forever’ but finally found it hidden as the little bl.sambo book, and couldnt understand why they were bringing tigers into my little black sambo world of puppies - unfortunately drowned and butter dripping etc.

By: My Mother The Racist at PooterGeek

My Mother The Racist at PooterGeek — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:13:53 +0000

[…] The Ablutionist published an excellent post yesterday describing exactly the sort of casual wanging around of the word “racist” that I referred to on Friday. I wonder what advocate-but-not-adopter of the Stone Age lifestyle Jenny Tonge would have thought if she had overheard my mother on a bus telling me as a child whenever my afro got too straggly: “Comb your hair when we get home, Damian. You look like a bushman!” my colonialist mum with my nephew, Little Black Sambo […]

By: George Szirtes

George Szirtes — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:20:41 +0000

You forgot Little Black Quibba by the mango tree…

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:08:43 +0000

I believe it’s set in India.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:26:42 +0000

Outside of zoos, anyway.

By: Dave F

Dave F — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:23:10 +0000

There are no tigers in Africa.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:43:22 +0000

My mum read ‘Little Black Sambo’ to my niece on a regular basis (the inescapably unfortunate title aside, it’s not remotely racist - if anything, he’s an overwhelmingly positive black role model, seeing as how he runs rings round four fearsome tigers using nothing but cunning and ingenuity), but for many months she refused to let her go past the middle section, where for reasons known only to the publisher they included two facing pages of text - i.e. no colourful pictures.

As a result, she must have got the impression that the entire story was about a group of tigers mugging this poor child and getting away with it…

By: Kibi

Kibi — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:49:29 +0000

I found Epaminandus is that what you mean? Somewere on the web they said it was offensive, but from the link I found I can't see why.

By: Dave F

Dave F — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:45:09 +0000

There’s a great celebration of the roots of the samba by jazz singer Kevin Mahogany called “Little Black Samba”

By: Leasey

Leasey — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:34:41 +0000

Little black Sambo? That’s a new one on me. After my Grandfather died, my grandmother gave me one of his favourite childhood books. Called Epaminandos or something like that. Don’t have the sense he was born with, never will have the sense he was born with etc etc.
Look that one up, its very funny!

By: Roberta Swipe

Roberta Swipe — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:55:30 +0000

“You have to make your own entertainment when you don’t have a television.”

Too right, Damien.

I grew up in the 70s and we used to have to mek wor own entertainments all the time, like. I used to live for the Norman Wisdom fiilums they used to show after Nationwide most nights, only we used to have a telly that kept blowing up right in the middle of them. So I know the script of The Square Peg backwards until it gets to the bit where he’s bayonetting the straw dummies - and from there on, I’m clueless. Fortunately, there have been no serious side effects…wwwwhhhhhhhhhoooooaaaaaaarrrgghhhh Mistah GGGGGGrrrrrriiiiiiiimmssssdddaaaalllleeee…

Sorrry, I’m delerious with fever. Full medical updates here:

http://rswipe.blogspot.com/2005/11/personal-message-from-mardin-antlers.html

And Happy 58th birthday A. Radiographer. It’s all down hill from there, believe me…

xxx

Roberta

By: David G

David G — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:31:33 +0000

Are they still doing Allegro Beige, Mystery Meat and Cardiac?