Ten Height Challenged Native Americans

[PlayadelSoul]

The Enquirer - Lakota cancels play after protest

[Mr Cancun]

Its okay Mark, the High School will then do a spectacular transgender recital of "The Vagina Monologues" followed by the first graders doing "My Two Experimenting Mammas". The fifth graders will then perfectly orchestrate the correct method of birth control in "Sex with my Science Teacher".Perfectly okay in today's secular progressive society.

[Rissask]

Whew
I can be in your good books again in this thread.

I think that is utterly ridiculous.

Although, really they could have avoided controversy by calling it by the other name too.

The title of the international bestseller was widely changed after 1939, and school theater productions in America have performed the murder mystery play as either "Ten Little Indians" or "And Then There Were None" for decades since.

Still silliness, though.

They'd have a heyday with the town in my province called 'Indian Head'.

[melliedee]

The original title is startling. But it sounds like this Hines fellow is trying to sell his own diversity training services to the school district? I am not familiar with this play.

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[queencityfan]

It's a murder mystery, people get killed in a murder mystery.
Gosh, sometimes I just hate being from this backwards town.......
Mellidee, you are so right that this whole thing is about Hines selling his services to this poor suburban school district that is riddled with racisim but doesn't know it......

[melliedee]

Originally Posted by queencityfan

It's a murder mystery, people get killed in a murder mystery.
Gosh, sometimes I just hate being from this backwards town.......
Mellidee, you are so right that this whole thing is about Hines selling his services to this poor suburban school district that is riddled with racisim but doesn't know it......

I love Cinci and you do too! (and I just applied for a job in Kentucky!! )

[Sol]

Originally Posted by melliedee

I love Cinci and you do too! (and I just applied for a job in Kentucky!! )

Good luck! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!

[queencityfan]

Originally Posted by melliedee

I love Cinci and you do too! (and I just applied for a job in Kentucky!! )

Cool, keep us informed on your job hunt!

You should have seen the letters to the Editor, not to mention the papers' Editorial, all were against this ridiculous kind of censorship.

I understand the kids are trying to find a place to perform it outside of school. I hope they do, I'd buy a ticket.

I also learned that the n word that was originally used was not refering to African indians but to natives from India, which would make sense seeing as Agatha Christie was an English author.

[queencityfan]

Sanity prevails!
CINCINNATI -- The show will go on, officials said at a high school that cancelled a scheduled student performance due to racial concerns.

Students were given permission Thursday to perform “Ten Little Indians,” a 1939 play based on an Agatha Christie novel, following recent discussions about freedom of speech and diversity.

Officials had called off performances scheduled for this weekend after local NAACP president Gary Hines complained that the novel’s original title used a racial slur to describe African-Americans.

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“Learning this history caused a negative impact on some members of our community, our staff and our students, (and) the original decision to cancel the play was made out of respect for these valuable members of our schools and community,” said superintendent Mike Taylor.

Students will be allowed to perform the play Tuesday, Dec. 13, and Wednesday, Dec. 14, at the school, Taylor said.

He said officials hoped the play’s cancellation would open up discussion on inclusion and tolerance, but Taylor said the issue soon became an emotional one.

“Unfortunately the community dialogue in recent days has become focused more on distracting issues like censorship and the NAACP's role in our community,” Taylor said. “This has taken away from the direction we hoped for and our students have been caught in the middle.”

Taylor apologized to students and their families, and thanked Hines for bringing the issue to officials’ attention.

Taylor said the school also learned that students had been using an older, now out-of-print, edition of the play, which more recently has been printed under its original U.S. title, “And Then There Were None.”

Students will perform that version of the play next week, Taylor said.

Taylor added that students and community members would work together to determine some way to honor diversity, either before or after the performance.