Head teacher of Chantry Primary, Hazel King, said it apologised for any inconvenience caused to the Morris Men.Diverse and fragile. Oh dear.
"We organised the event to bring a diverse and fragile community together," she said.
"To celebrate all cultures we booked a Morris troupe, having failed to recognise the possible significance for our community of their tradition to perform with blackened faces.
"We found ourselves in a difficult position of weighing up any potential offence versus not wishing to compromise the Morris dancers' tradition."
"There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly." On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Thoreau.
Monday, 29 June 2009
Those Bad Racist Morris Men
It's on the BBC website, so it must be true: School bans black-face Morris men.
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