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Article #20210Re: What ever happened to "Little Black Sambo"?
From: David A. Kaye
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 00:00
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DaveHatunen wrote: : The story had nothing to do with Africans. Sambo was Indian (from : India, that is). When I was little, back in the late 1930s/early 1940s, : my copy of the book had Sambo in a Sikh style turban and he ahd Asian : eyes. And the tigers he melted would have been indigenous to India, not : Africa. Same here. I grew up in the 1950s and "Sambo" was an Indian kid, he wore a turban, had eyes leading me to believe he was maybe Malaysian. Also, in my book he wasn't black, but dark as an Indian or Malay might be. -- (c) 1995 YES, I'll design your web pages! See sample David Kaye at http://www.crl.com/~dk -- fast and friendly
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