(October 7, 2015 at 12:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I bet they are selling like hotcakes in Alabama, though.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/californ...rate-ship/
Quote:California mom furious after finding dark-skinned and shackled ‘slave’ figure in toy pirate ship
When pirates roamed the waves slavery was rife.
I would rather children be taught and given toys that reflected real history rather get the distorted, "it was all lovely back then" view we seem to get on British TV. We've had programmes set in Victorian England with black lawyers and a Polynesian play guinevere with any number of black knights. I would rather them know that things are better now than sugar coat the past.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.