# Why is Little Black Sambo racist?

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**Created:** [September 10, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-little-black-sambo-racist/462908 "2008-09-10T06:37:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-little-black-sambo-racist/462908/14 "2008-09-10T10:56:45Z")

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> [@TWDuke](#):
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> In a nod to racial sensitivity, Sambo was depicted with fair skin

How is that a “nod to reacial sensitivity”? Being too scared to depict a character in the correct ethnicity is being sensitive?

As long as I live I’ll never understand the American hang-up on race. Yes, I know there are lots of very good historical reasons why it is such a touchy subject, but in the 21st century people really should be worrying about more important things than melanin.

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