Odd question..................

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Odd question..................
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Sun, 12-28-2003 - 10:50am
I was in a toy store a couple of days ago and the salesperson was telling me that they had to "discontinue" DragonTales toys because of group who thought that the show was "inapropriate". Could someone fill me in? My dd watches DragonTales every morning and I don't see anything inapropriate, am I missing something?

Deb~

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Registered: 10-12-2003
Sun, 12-28-2003 - 12:05pm
dragon tales? innappropriate? how for crying out loud? dear god what's next, sagwa? no, i havent' heard that one at all, and it sounds ridiculous. i'll see if i can find anything online. my only guess might be the magic aspect of it, you know all the hoopla over harry potter. i dunno. people are WEIRD!!

clarity

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Registered: 10-07-2003
Sun, 12-28-2003 - 1:05pm
I love dragon tales! I think it is a great show for kids...my twins really relate to Zac and Weezie, and they have great morals...I couldn't imagine that this could be serious..I hope Charity finds something on it, I would be courous why?

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Registered: 10-07-2003
Sun, 12-28-2003 - 1:22pm
I think I found something on this, or some reason why it could be "discontinued". There has, this year been a boycott for alot of these cartoons that just display one culture, such as Dragon Tale, being spanish. Which is silly because you are watching it in english. That is two cultures right there. They name other cartoons, and children programs that they feel should be boycotted.


http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/0722kidstv22.html

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Sun, 12-28-2003 - 1:47pm
Dh watches fox new alot, and he told me that problems may begin with Seseme Street. They are preparing to introduce a new character that is hiv positive and they will announce that bert and ernie are gay.

I dont know how true this is, but I do know that it is making alot of people upset.
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Sun, 12-28-2003 - 2:14pm
I have heard that for years. That they are "oneday" going to announce that Bert and Ernie are gay, and that they are going to introduce an HIV character. I couldn't imagine that it is true, and that it is just a rumour. A rumor that causes alot of attention!

Be who you are and say what you feel because those  who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

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Registered: 05-22-2003
Sun, 12-28-2003 - 3:13pm
geez, I wonder where Ive been. That was the first. I hope that it is a rumor.
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Sun, 12-28-2003 - 3:51pm
the bert and ernie being gay part is a rumor, and although i used to have the shirt of them getting it on, it is for sure a rumor. the hiv+ character is true however, they have already added him in african sesame street. in africa thousands of children die each day of aids, and they felt to be socially responsible they should show a character who is dealing with it, just as they have a handicapped character on almost every cartoon in america. i think it's an awesome idea, and i would support it 100%. i don't know that they have any plans of bringing that to america however.

clarity

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Sun, 12-28-2003 - 3:53pm
nope, couldn't find a thing. sorry! o and belumade, everyone says charity, but it's actually clarity. weird, i know, but i'm stuck with it!

clarity

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Sun, 12-28-2003 - 4:23pm
here's what i found on rueters, sept 02.

South Africa's Sesame Street community welcomed a fluffy five-year-old orphan living with HIV Tuesday in the government's latest effort to stem the AIDS pandemic ravaging the country and the continent.

Education Minister Kader Asmal was the first outsider to hug Kami, a lively bear-like Muppet with a passion for nature, after her public debut at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital, the only one in the country offering drug therapy for children with AIDS.

Guests saw a snippet of the first show in which Kami is invited to join the familiar Sesame Street characters at play.

"You're beautiful," says Zikwe, the big, blue, gravely voiced kingpin of the show.

Asmal said the character, rejected last year as a member of the original U.S. Sesame Street community, would join the local Takalani Sesame from Sept. 30 to help children infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS to understand the disease.

Takalani means "be happy" in the local Venda language and Kami's name is derived from the Tswana word for "acceptance."

Sesame Street is a pre-school television show based on the popular Muppets series and designed to help children prepare for school.

"Education is the only socially acceptable vaccine available to our people and represents our only hope to save our nation," Asmal said in an address to funders and partners in the project.

"We can't continue to have HIV positive children isolated, demonized, victimized. We want to make all of our children feel comfortable," he said.

The United Nations estimates 2.3 million people died of AIDS-related illnesses in Africa last year, leaving hundreds of thousands of children orphaned.

It estimates 28.1 million of the 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS are in Africa and 4.8 million are in South Africa, where one in nine people are infected.

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Sun, 12-28-2003 - 4:46pm
Sorry I read it at a glance, I realized later when I was reading one of your other posts...sorry! Beutiful name though!

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