Comments on: “Ten Little Niggers”: The Making of a Black Man’s Consciousness

By: Simone

Simone — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:03:28 +0000

Hello Mrs Anderson,

I’m currently studying a degree in Media in London, UK. I have recently finished writing my Thesis based primarily on the book and racism in children’s literature in general. Your article was very helpful and a key source in the analysis of the rhymes and illustrations. I have also read Prof. Dr. Wulf Schmidt-Wulffen “Ten Little Niggers – Zehn kleine Negerlein. Racism in Children’s Books. A German Point of View.”- In which I discovered the reference to your article. I grew up in Germany during the 1990s, and in fact my family read the book to me, and it was available in the children’s section of the local library. I’m currently working on a script for a screenplay around the same subject area and if you’re interested I would be happy to receive your feedback or involvement.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind regards

By: Bert

Bert — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:03:46 +0000

I invite you all to see the beauty of the poem as well.
As in any form of hypnosis one counts from 10 to 0 in order to come in contact with ones soul. Judging is something only the mind can, the mind indeed minds, that’s why we call it mind. The soul is the greatest force to hypnotize a human being and can only operate out of pure, unconditional love for the benefit of the whole, in all times, under all circumstances, without exception.
Even if the nursery rime was intended to condition kids minds that there is such thing as superior and therefor inferior races, it will completely miss its effect since the connection with the pure soul and the real truth makes one realize we’re all one. And we have an ego and image, we are not that, we have thoughts and feelings, we are not them. Who we think we are is just who we think we are, who we are is who we are.

All is perfect, we don’t see the world as it is, we see the world as we choose to think we believe it is, we see the world as we are.
Life is a miracle, and a divine plan, thanks for being alive, you’re all right, all the time, and please share your knowledge and insights with everyone we might benefit from it.

By: i.m.

i.m. — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:24:04 +0000

Dear Ameicans, please, at least have the decency to leave Agatha Christie out of this. Stop embarrassing yourselves. Ignorance and political correctness has already made your once great nation the laughing stock of the rest of the civilised world. Honestly, you can buggerize the English language all you want within the US borders but do you have any idea how much impact your politically correct lunacy is having on the rest of the English-speaking world? Hasn’t English suffered enough?! Thank god other languages, as far as I’m aware, aren’t subjected to this king of butchery. At least not to this extend.
You preach tolerance yet you insist on censoring classics thus displaying mind-numbing narrow-mindedness. You claim to be purveyors of equality and fairness yet, in the 21st century you still insist on viewing the world through a prism of race and gender. Recently, Apple censored an app for an Australian TV show called “Spicks and Specks” – a music quiz show of some sort… Americans did not invent the English language and I couldn’t care less what the word Spick has morphed into in the American vernacular. Or the word “hoe” for that matter. My hoe is made of wood and metal. Here (in Australia) people are starting to refer to stewardesses as flight attendants, toilets – as bathrooms, chairmen – as chairs., etc. Luckily, we can still order a black coffee – and call it… a black coffee. I’m not Anglo Saxon or even a native English speaker but this cultural (in this case – linguistic) imperialism, arrogance and IGNORANCE upsets me to no end.
If the author is so concerned with mental conditioning of the oppressed black male, may I draw her attention to the ugliest cultural(?) phenomenon ever to be spawned by her country. It’s called hip hop.
Now I hear they are planning to cut smoking scenes out of old Disney cartoons (I hope I hallucinated this rumour). I digress. Maybe I’ve had one joint too many tonight. Speaking of which, who came up with the idea of criminalising pot? Aaaah… never mind.
Farewell.

By: robert osborne

robert osborne — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:33:18 +0000

Ten guilty crackas crin’ all datime
A nigga camen et one dender was nine.

Oh the HORROR.
Does anyone here take any of this seriously or believe these ancient harmless relics of a long gone age are being taught in government schools today?
If so get over it.
We recently elected a black guy president.

By: Niz Khedaru

Niz Khedaru — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:51:48 +0000

i’d like to say that you are all a bunch of immature idiots. if people offended by racism cant get over slavery and racism then why should the rest of the world forget about it. many of you stated that ‘white people’ were ignorant or racist. that they were bad people. you talk about equality and anti-racism. well hello you’re being racist. you’re stereotyping ‘white people’ and paving the road for racism. the only way to get through racism is by forgiving and forgeting. look at martin luther king jr. he worked for equal rights by understanding ‘whites’ and explaining his point of veiw. he didnt use violence. he didnt put down so called whites. no. he reached the hearts of peole of all races with his words. i say this because racism is a part of my life. im not black or aisian or mexican. and it doesnt matter. all that does matter is that im human.

IF YOU FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE YOU GET A BIGGER FIRE> FIGHT FIRE WITH WATER WHO DO YOU THINK WILL WIN.

use love not hate