is anyone actually offended?

[bluesmartiew]

I was listening to the radio this morning, and i heard that the song 'baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?' is being changed to 'baa, baa, woolly/rainbow sheep etc.' just because it's a black sheep. Is any one acually offended by that? They haven't even asked any one if they actually are offended. I presume it's politicians again lol.

[allotment10]

go to the news section, there's loads of posts on there about this!

[Dollie]

a woman I work with doesn't like us to say 'black' coffee - purleeze ???

[bluesmartiew]

o, sorry i didn't realise :) i'd still like to know who actually is offended. I don't think any one is

[pega]

WE have gone mad what has happened to our pleasant land ? I read that a shop was raided and Golliwogs removed, and there was taken off the marmalade Jars sometime back, and can't have have snow white and the seven dwarfs.. and now Baa Baa Black sheep being going for years without any problems have never heard such rubbish as rainbow sheep its lovely to see a little black lamb dancing in the fields and I suppose this Nursery rhyme was wrote in that you don't see many Black sheep. What next will I be stopped wearing my deerstalker hat as impersonating Sherlock Holmes, it raised a few eyebrows last week when I visited the Sherlock Holmes museum in Meiringen Switzerland and staying at Hotel where Author of books stayed and wrote his last novel. Its surely up to anyone who sings these Nursery Rhymes to stick to the Baa Baa Black sheep or re-write it.......

[jojo100]

well wait till they try and stop us having a Christmas, heard other day they looking into it coz it offens.......lol only good thing about that is ill save money not buying xmas cards,,,,,,,,,hehe

[bluesmartiew]

surely if people wanted the rhyme changed they would have complained? I never thought anything into the rhyme at all when i sang it growing up. You're probably right jojo, they'll ban easter and christmas at this rate.

[Mudman]

I think it's because the song makes references to drug dealers and we don't want our kids to grow up thinking that they're all black. Do we?

Personally, I think that if you give them just the right amount of confusion at that age, It will have them chasing 'Rainbow sheep' sooner than you can say "Puff the magic Dragon".

[lafrancaise]

No other country seems to have this problem. A colour is a colour. Unfortunately there are some stupid white politicians walking about that actually think that being black must bother those who are, so whatever you do you mustn't mention it.

Blacks are black and proud of it, just like whites are white and proud of it. Just like being blonde, auburn or dark-haired isn't a problem, nor being blue-eyed or brown-eyed.

[netibiza]

But you can get black sheep (read lucy and lanky) so what's wrong in saying that they are black. If they were pink we could say so.

[rescuer]

In a field near to us there are newly-born lambs -- and they are ALL black!

And I recently noticed that Fox's Glacier Mints are now available in liquorice flavour and, guess what, the sweets are black!

This PC thing has gone crazy. As a hobby I teach swimming (I am fully qualified) and I used to take cam-corder shots of pupils doing various strokes and diving. It was useful to show them where they were going wrong and of course when they got it right. But now I am not allowed to take a camera into the pool area. Nobody has ever complained. Indeed all have appreciated the photos and videos.

[stoo_pid]

Yawn....

The suggested change has nothing to do with race or use of the colour black being offensive to black people. In fact they still sing Baa Baa Black Sheep.

The Sure Start centres in Ofxord & Abingdon are run by the charity PACT (Parents and Children Together). The idea is to turn the song into an action rhyme. In addition to "Black" sheep they also sing "Happy", "Sad", "Bouncing", "Hopping", "Pink", "Blue", "White", etc.

An insider at the Daily Express was quoted as saying "our readers have a right to know what the ever-elusive PC Brigade are up to and we'll be damned if we're going to let facts get in the way of a good front-page headline"

Read the truth

[smudge]

A few more comments on the matter: Here

[maggie01]

We often sing it a pre-school. We still sing black sheep but often the children want to change it to blue sheep, white sheep, pink sheep. No on is bothered.

[SKY250]

Sad is that all they have to worry about!