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2004-12-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Is "Kemosabe" Racist?
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Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-12-23 11:09:02 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "Justice" running a little slow, is it?

Well, Canuckia does have a higher likelihood of having glaciers.....
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-23 11:46:17 AM||   2004-12-23 11:46:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Now about thet word, "tonto"....
Posted by mojo  2004-12-23 12:00:36 PM||   2004-12-23 12:00:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 
Are we limited to an either/or here?
Not in this case.

Or most cases like this. ;-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-12-23 1:23:19 PM||   2004-12-23 1:23:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 This is Canada we're talking about: let them settle it under sharia law.
Posted by Tom 2004-12-23 1:25:27 PM||   2004-12-23 1:25:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Tom - that would probably work.

Of course, it would involve stoning or beheading her....
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-12-23 1:31:54 PM||   2004-12-23 1:31:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 What do you mean we, white man?
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-23 1:45:30 PM||   2004-12-23 1:45:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought that "kemosabe" meant friend or buddy. I also seem to remember that the reason the Lone Ranger had cowboy superpowers was because he was raised by Indians rather than whites. Also, having an Indian sidekick that could track, fight, shoot, and move silently was supposed to be cool, not bigoted.

Soooo..... racist? Come again?
Posted by Secret Master 2004-12-23 3:56:06 PM||   2004-12-23 3:56:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Wasn't there an old song or something?
The Lone Ranger and Tonto rode the trail,catching outlaws and putting them in jail.

But the Ranger shot old Tonto cause it seems...He found out what "Kemosabe" means...
:-D
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-12-23 8:12:38 PM||   2004-12-23 8:12:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 What I heard was that "kemosabe" was a corruption of the Spanish "quien mas sabe"-- in English, "he who knows more". If so, Tonto was just kinda sucking up.....

Posted by Wuzzalib  2004-12-23 8:31:03 PM||   2004-12-23 8:31:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 In the US there are 4 busineses listed under Kemosabe and 7 enterprises calling themselves Kemo Sabe. Ya think they are intentionally offending their customers?
For "The Definitive Word on 'Kemo Sabe'" check this link. It seems that Canadian lawyers don't have enough to do.
Posted by GK 2004-12-23 9:17:01 PM||   2004-12-23 9:17:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 sounds like she was thinking with her squaw
Posted by Frank G  2004-12-23 10:16:50 PM||   2004-12-23 10:16:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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