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Minority Report

• People conveniently forget how exactly the vast majority of black people in this country came to be here. [PBC]

• Forget that a high school is putting on a play, it's shocking that Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) was originally titled Ten Little Niggers. [AP]

• The FBI will not reopen the 1968 "Orangeburg Massacre" case due to double jeopardy concerns, since state troopers accused in the case had already been acquitted. The NAACP is unhappy, of course. [WLTX]

• The Toronto city council's slowness in making any decisions about a proposed black-focused school in the city has parents pissed. [CTV]

• Foxy Brown developed "character" in solitary confinement. It was much-needed. [SS]

Nov 30, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 4 Responses

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Tagged: Agatha Christie, FBI, Foxy Brown, Minority Report, Orangeburg Massacre, Racism, Slavery, Toronto

Comments (4)

No. 1 · Meg

As an avid Agatha Christie fan I was really upset when I learned the original title of the book. I was about 12 or 13 at the time. My mother, who got me hooked on her books, wasn't as pissed and sort of brushed it of with the old "that was a different era" excuse. I found this poem. http://www.htl-steyr.ac.at/~mo.....ittle.html
I don't know if it was written before she wrote the book and she used it as inspiration or if she wrote it to sum up the plot of the book.

Posted: Nov 30, 2007 at 10:03 am

No. 2 · gossipjunkie

I started googling after I read your Agatha Christie entry. It's crazy the number of folk songs/nursery rhymes that are offensive and that we all happily sang along. Even in the form I learned when I was young, looking back on it "Ten Little Indians" was bad….but 10 LIttle Niggers??? Man. Then there are derivations of Eeny, Meeny, Miny Mo that are horrible, too. Whenever I have kids, I'm going to have to be really careful about what I teach them. And here I thought these were just innocent, fun songs. I should've known better.

Posted: Nov 30, 2007 at 12:23 pm

No. 3 · blackmistressdiva

I did not know that about Agatha Christie. I am kind of surprised. I probably shouldn't be though.

Posted: Nov 30, 2007 at 12:57 pm

No. 4 · daria

First link isn't working.

I do background searches on authors now before I buy their books. Charles Bukowski just went off of my Amazon wish list.

Posted: Nov 30, 2007 at 1:00 pm

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