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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
I bet no one in this thread was a member of Indian Princesses? Boy, those little girls and their daddies sure were racist!  |
No, they were ignorant by participating in something that promotes racial stereotypes.
"Red Face" does not honor us
On Indian Princesses
And on the
Y program Indian Princesses
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It's with mixed feelings that I hear the YMCA has chosen to end its Y-Indian Princess program. I do think it would have been better to fix what was racist about the program rather than throwing the whole thing out entirely. Youth groups are a good opportunity for constructive dialogue and teaching children about another culture, which is too often swept under the carpet in our country today. On the other hand, changing the program to be more culturally respectful might have entailed more work, expense, and argument with members than the YMCA wanted to deal with, and I certainly commend them for caring about our feelings enough to do something, even if it isn't necessarily the solution I would have chosen.
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