I guess what he means is the black sheep is not a negative sterotype of black youth
Would it be naughty of me to remind you that, in an earlier thread, you called this the “Jim Davidson Defence”.
Transferring the point I was trying to make then to this context, if you perceived that ‘3 bags of wool’ was a reference to individual portions of crack cocaine, you could extrapolate that Baa Baa Black Sheep is a metaphor for a young man of Afro-Caribbean descent, who is carrying out business with his dealer, his crack ho’ and another young man who he’s weaning onto a drug habit.
Someone could come up with that interpretation, but most sane people would regard it as utter nonsense and clearly not a meaning intended by the original author. In that context, would it be legitimate for the person who’s given it this ‘drug’ interpretation to call for it to be banned for racial stereotyping?
