I love how it’s a little golden book, and some of those are straight up banned. We found a rather racist one of those in a neighborhood mini library thing, “Little Black Sambo”— (the OG story is a real folk tale but the images they used were not great)
I got the sense it wasn’t meant with malice, just people of the 1960s attempting to tell a story from another culture and uhh… flavoring it. The story actually got retold with a bit more cultural sensitivity in the 90s, since the base story is actually ok (apart from, you know, eating tigers).
I love how it’s a little golden book, and some of those are straight up banned. We found a rather racist one of those in a neighborhood mini library thing, “Little Black Sambo”— (the OG story is a real folk tale but the images they used were not great)
I’m ashamed to say I owned that one. I didn’t buy it myself, obviously.
I got the sense it wasn’t meant with malice, just people of the 1960s attempting to tell a story from another culture and uhh… flavoring it. The story actually got retold with a bit more cultural sensitivity in the 90s, since the base story is actually ok (apart from, you know, eating tigers).