[or-roots] Little Black Sambo 1946

[Cecil Houk]

The following is NOT PC.

The story of "Little Black Sambo" is no longer allowed in this country, but it was very popular in the 1940's.  Not only in the USA, but also in Japan.

Prior to WWII Japan was a "closed society"; no foreigners were allowed.  The only exposure to black people the Japanese people had was "Little Black Sambo" and stories of African cannibals.

One day in 1946, a young girl was walking home from school.  She passed a field where American occupation soldiers were playing baseball.  One of them offered her a candy bar... he was black!

She envisioned herself in a big stew pot!!  She ran all the way home - screaming.  She was terrified by black people for the rest of her life.

I know this is true because she was my first wife.  She died in 1993, but not in a stew pot; cancer.




Midori Murakami
1935-1993

Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.
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