# D & D got woke and that's good because you should have all been playing that way (or not if you didn't prefer))

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> “Capering” is exactly the right word. Folks who doubt that this Hadozee image has racist allusions should try an image search like “[Bard 5e](https://www.google.com/search?q=5e+bard)” and ask yourself which of the images is likely to be singing “Jump Jim Crow.” None of them are, except the Spelljammer monkey.

For the record, the closest I found was [this](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-e5b80d26bbd67f0bd711806fda60251e-lq), and that’s clearly more of an Irish jig-like dance.

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