On Nov 10, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Ivan came home from his daycare singing "baa baa sheep" (as well as a
> 22-month-old can). It made wonder if "black" had been excised as
> racist. A quick Google search suggests that it may have been. Has
> anyone encountered them?
>
My son's tapes/CDs say "black sheep" as do the strange creatures (Elmo?) in a video tape someone gave him. One CD version tries to "PC" it in the other direction: where the adult singer sings "yellow sheep", "pink sheep", etc, as she stumbles her way through the song... to be corrected by her toddler audience that the sheep are either black or white. Its all still quite old-fashioned and horrifying... with Georgie Porgie [sp?] kissing the girls to make them cry (though one of the young chap's favourite song through last year was Esthero's Wicked Little Girls) etc.
--ravi