More signs the UK has lost the plot

there's more to come

Ali...

Black organisations should be complaining that a rare example in literature
of a good and industruous black has been expunged.

Similarly, the dropping of the dwarfs from Snow White stikes me as being
sizeist.

shaz...

Absolutely barmy. I thought it was bad enough when we couldn't say black
boards, but had to say chalk boards instead. But why is it OK to say white
boards? Wonder if they will now change the name of black paint itself?

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

We had green boards installed at the school where I taught in the 1980s and

Ali...

We had green boards at the school where I was taught back in 1961. We called
them blackboards though.

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

I wasn't *that* colour blind. ;)

90s. :)

pandamonium...

Those rubbery ones on rollers? I remember some of our classrooms having
those. Chewed up bits of paper stuck well to them.

BunnyHare...

And, you know, its not new either. Round about 16 years ago at the
playgroup in Fife the powers that be instructed us not to let the
children sing Baa Baa black sheep as we had one black boy in the group
and he might be upset.
They wanted us to sing Baa Baa white sheep instead
We successfully argued that if we sang Baa Baa white sheep then our
little black boy might feel even more discriminated against
I guess they never thought about rainbow sheep :-)

Aries...

Weird especially as some of our sheep were black!

Paul Jeffree...

Dunno about rainbow sheep, but we've seen plenty of multi-coloured ones in
the hills, when their dye marks get all blurred by the weather.

And there are black ones too. A German friend thought they had suffered a
nasty burning accident. Perhaps they don't allow black sheep in Germany.....

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

I suppose they'd be well camouflaged in the Black Forest. LOL

Paul Jeffree...

Now you're being treeist ;)

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

:) or should I :(

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2073043,00.html