Thursday, August 17, 2006

Off to Lynch The Wizard

This is a disturbing story: Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz was a nasty (and quite vocal, apparently) racist. Now here's a little game for you kids: match the characters of the Wizard of Oz with their racist archetypes. The Tin Man? Baum was obviously an anti-Tin-ite!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Say it isn't so! Kill my idol. Oh well, at least he didn't call Dorothy sugar-tits. -IW

Marc Weingarten said...

Maybe he did...Sugar plum fairy tits I think...