Racist grandparentsIt Came From Planet Aylia says: "My husband's mad Auntie Joan accused the man seven doors down of stealing her milk as he was the first black neighbour she had. She doesn't even get her milk delivered." Tell us about casual racism from oldies.
Thanks to Brayn Dedd who suggested this too
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 11:54)
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He ended up as a grandparent so...The Reverend W. Awdry. Creator of the Thomas the Tank engine books.
When I was little we had a number of the railway series books hanging around. Some of them (most probably) were at least second hand. In one story, some boys are chucking rocks at passing trains, so a plan is hatched in which Henry (the green engine) saved up a load of ashes to blast out his funnel as they went under the bridge. I remember Mum pointing out this part of the book, telling me what the word meant and telling me that I must never use it.
'The boys ran away, black as niggers.'
A few years back I bought, for nostalgic reasons, the complete railway series in one big volume. The first thing I did was turn to that page, to find that the boys now 'ran away, black as soot'.
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The Togaboy The world will end on, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 3:45,
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but niggers ARE black.how was this racist? its PC gone mad, I tell you!
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It's soot that I feel sorry for.(
monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 9:41,
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