The first ever Dandy annual has been re-printed for christmas. Some nuts are up in arms over the Smarty Grandpa cartoon where he helps out the 'nigger minstrels' by blacking up his face with coal and collecting cash off old ladies, before taking them out for a slap-up meal.
Some people obviously find it impossible to accept that the world wasn't always exactly like it is now, where they can't use words like that because of the fascist PC brigade and their militant consciences. Maybe they should have changed it to African-American (even though it's Scottish) or coon.
I'm sure Enid Blyton used to use nigger, it is definately peppered all through the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
What better way to teach a youngster about modern manners than giving them this book, laughing along with them, then explaining not to use the word in front of black folk because it is offensive to them.
Anyway, who thinks that it should be BANNED because its EVIL FILTH!?!
not me.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2453704.html