Apparently Uncle Remus isn't the only one upset Aesop is already planning a lawsuit.

One more point

Interesting, as a writer of fiction myself, I haven’t read anybody else’s stories in decades and that way I can’t be accused of pinching somebody’s ideas. But in view of the high profile cases in the music industry lately I am not surprised that people have started to look ‘backwards’ to uncover alleged misdemeanours. However, who is the individual author who would get the money if it ever got to court?

hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing.

One person's opinion is a "call" is it? I don't like most of the lyrics to rap records so I don't listen to rap music. It's not difficult.

A theatre in East London (subsidised by the Arts Council – ie: you and me) are putting on a fun-packed show by a pair called Tambo & Bones. The blurb says: “join their journey from comedy double-act, to hip-hop superstars, to activists in an America at the epicentre of the global Black Lives Matter movement”.

For at least one evening the theatre is calling for there to be a ‘black out’ performance where white people are dissuaded from attending – they say: “where an all-black-identifying audience can enjoy and discuss the performance free from the white gaze”. The director, Matthew Xia explains that “I felt that with a play like Tambo & Bones, which unpicks the complexity of Black performance in relation to the white gaze, it was imperative that we created such a space.”

Imagine the cancellations and probable prosecutions if a white director suggested an evening free from the ‘black gaze’.

(Radio listeners could of course be excused if they misinterpreted Xia’s words as being homophobic as well as racist.)

Edited by georgenorman (26 May 2023 12.50pm)

This is one reason why English Literature degrees at university are being decimated and withdrawn by the deans. Because the work involved trawling through the great works in the English language for racial/homophobic/trans/queer slurs is just exhausting.

Would highly recommend people to read Steinbeck - great writer.