RACE WAR POLITICS

Nursery school children at two centres in Abingdon and Oxford have been banned from singing ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’.

Instead, they are being compelled to sign ‘Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep’.

Stuart Chamberlain of the Oxford Sure Start Centre in Sutton Courtenay said:

‘Basically we have taken the equal opportunities approach to everything we do. This is fairly standard across nurseries. We are following stringent equal opportunities rules. No one should feel pointed out because of their race, gender or anything else.’

This is not the first time that race zealots have tried to ban or tamper with the nursery rhyme. Previously attempts have been made to change it to ‘green’ or ‘happy’ sheep. In 1999 the Birmingham City Council banned the rhyme on the basis that it was racially negative and likely to cause offence.

In fact, the rhyme has nothing to do with race and is believed to have originated from the Middle Ages and relates to a tax imposed by the king on wool.

Both the so-called Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality have refused to comment.