The Show Mustn't Go On
Controversy Kills School Play
Gary Hines, president of a local NAACP chapter and operator of a diversity training company, has succeeded in getting Lakota High School to cancel the scheduled performances of Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians (more popularly known as And Then There Were None). His problem arises from the fact that waaayyyy back in 1939…and in a different country…the original title for Ms. Christie’s book was Ten Little Niggers. Never mind that it’s never been published under that title in America. Never mind that it isn’t even about race.
How long before taking a train on the railroad or wearing cotton clothing is considered racist due to their racist histories?
Was that a rhetorical question? Because if not...I give it a year.
Kara said...
Tue Nov 27, 11:12:00 PM EST
Oh my gosh, that is utterly ridiculous!
Craze said...
Wed Nov 28, 03:53:00 PM EST
File that one other another round of abusrdity!
Kelly Malloy said...
Wed Nov 28, 05:12:00 PM EST
More PC crap.
*~*Cece*~* said...
Wed Nov 28, 07:54:00 PM EST
SHAKE-DOWN! Baby! SHAKE-DOWN!
Gary Hines, as president of GPH Consultants - a diversity training company, repeatedly approached the school district for a diversity training contract; when they failed to comply (i.e., failed to pay him off) the very same Gary Hines, as president of the local chapter of the NAACP brought the hammer down on them.
It’s more than high-time that prosecutors started using the R.I.C.O. Act against criminal extortion artists like Gary Hines!
Anonymous said...
Wed Nov 28, 10:11:00 PM EST
GAH!
Sorry for all the noise...It's amazing the clatter that can arise from banging ones head repeatedly on ones keyboard...
Loralee Choate said...
Wed Nov 28, 10:40:00 PM EST