Brilliant story to read to my son, he always loves hearing the sneeze part! (I'm using the Notts/Derby accent for the driver from my home town when I read it!)
A friend of mine who was in the 1st Marine Division during the Korean War experienced the racism of those times, His name is Aurelio Alfeo or Uncle Alf Able Company 1st Battalion 7th Marines and on one deployment he had a black squadmate with him and the gunny a white guy pointed his M1 Garand rifle at him and said "I'll shove that M1 up your a$$ because your kind doesn't belong here" and he did not come to the same post to grab a beer, Just goes to show you racism was pretty much the norm in this era especially in the 1940s and 50s
Good old Morris. He got rid of that racist N word. I still can't believe it was considered acceptable back in the 50s. And it's odd to hear a holy person used it and thought it was acceptable.
Joseph Marrison I know this was the UK, but I am confused at something... I know in British English that word was used to describe Indians (India Indians). But this saying would work in America sadly, I think if he was Racist he would have resisted re-writing the story in the 70’s.
This one didn't actually need remastering in my opinion. I only sent it you in case you wanted to match the quality of the others. Sorry if I've wasted your time.
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HE WENT OVER THE LIMITS WITH THAT SNEEZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People here are talking about how the original version of the story contained a racial slur, that was used to describe the boys after being covered in soot. It seemed acceptable at the time it was published, but society moved forward after that, and the n-word is no longer acceptable. Awdry lived in a time where anti-black prejudice was commonplace, and would've been racist, like a lot of people were at the time. Awdry like many others moved on from racism and apologised for the offensive remark in the story, and changed the offending sentence to solve the problem.
It was actually because Awdry apologized for the term years after this came out, Remember this was 1951 and in the World War II era and afterwards racism was still very commonplace
