Monkeys, anyone?

[cryowizard]

When people have a chip on their shoulder, not much can be done about that.

Sad, really.

A mother has taken her son out of a school play after he and another black pupil were cast as monkeys.

Lorraine Rees said that Ashley Down Infant School in Bristol had acted in a racist manner by asking her son to perform the role.

Mrs Rees, 39, said her son Myles, seven, was upset when he was asked to play the part of a monkey in the production of An Enchanted Island.
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Speaking from her home in Henbury, Bristol, Mrs Rees said: "Everyone is aware of the racist connotations of asking a black pupil to play a monkey.
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"There is no way that black pupils should even be asked to play monkeys in any type of play."

"My son is very upset by all of this, he had wanted to play the part of a hunter but was told he would have to play the part of a monkey."
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Three other white students are to play monkeys in the play, which will be performed next month.

Is there a possibility that him not getting the role he wanted is the grounds for the upset, and not the monkey factor??

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/22/urace.xml

Comments

[baffled-pumpkin.livejournal.com]

damn, i love disagreeing with you, but here i am helpless.

unfortunately, this is how most human beings are designed -- always trying to find a culprit.