Revhed
17th March 2008, 11:21 AM
Does that mean I can file a racisim complaint for portraying Australians as convicts?
A popular children's TV puppet show starring Basil Brush has been accused of racially abusing gypsies.
British police have launched an investigation into claims that an episode of the Basil Brush Show that screened on the BBC was racially offensive because it showed a gypsy woman trying to sell the puppet fox wooden pegs and a bunch of heather.
"This sort of thing happens quite regularly and we are fed up with making complaints about stereotypical comments about us in words that we find racist or offensive," Joseph Jones, vice-chairman of the Southern England Romany Gipsy and Irish Traveller Network, told the Mail on Sunday.
"Travellers have historically sold heather and pegs, but they don't do it anymore for a living.
"It could be that someone thought this was a kind of stereotyping like the portrayal of black people in the Black and White Minstrel Show."
Original article: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=392489
A popular children's TV puppet show starring Basil Brush has been accused of racially abusing gypsies.
British police have launched an investigation into claims that an episode of the Basil Brush Show that screened on the BBC was racially offensive because it showed a gypsy woman trying to sell the puppet fox wooden pegs and a bunch of heather.
"This sort of thing happens quite regularly and we are fed up with making complaints about stereotypical comments about us in words that we find racist or offensive," Joseph Jones, vice-chairman of the Southern England Romany Gipsy and Irish Traveller Network, told the Mail on Sunday.
"Travellers have historically sold heather and pegs, but they don't do it anymore for a living.
"It could be that someone thought this was a kind of stereotyping like the portrayal of black people in the Black and White Minstrel Show."
Original article: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=392489