Monday, 12 July 2021

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Officials in London's Redbridge borough were left red-faced after a library event designed to promote reading among kids featured a monkey character in a costume that included dangling fake genitalia and exposed buttocks.
The costume and the actor wearing it came from Mandinga Arts, a troupe of street performers based in Clapham South that has "a distinctive style bringing together live music, carnival, street costume, puppetry and dance, drawing on diverse influences from Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa," according to its website.

And presumably Japan... 

Redbridge Libraries acknowledged the lapse in judgement and apologized for hosting the performance, but shifted the blame onto the charity Vision. It was they, rather than the borough council, who were responsible for organizing the event, the statement said.

Typical! 

Council leader Jas Athwal called the situation "disgusting" and said the charity had confirmed to him that all scheduled events were cancelled, but he likewise distanced himself from the controversy.

After whining on social media that those complaining about it were 'Johnny come latelys'... 

3 comments:

  1. It looks like this disgraceful and inappropriate display by this art group in Redbridge is going to have a lot of fall out.

    An Islamic group in the heavily and rapidly Islamising London Borough of Redbridge are going to have a peaceful protest about the 'Rainbow Monkey Dildo' incident. See https://order-order.com/2021/07/13/protest-organised-against-taxpayer-funded-rainbow-dildo-butt-monkey/#comments

    Whilst I have no time for Islam, on this occasion I'm on the side of the Muslim parents about this. This display, which was put on in order to encourage kids to read, was grossly inappropriate.

    BTW the US YouTuber The Quartering has also done an excellent take down of the group behind this inappropriate display. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-eWBDk4Auc

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  2. Do we know how many kids have been encouraged to read after seeing dildo clown and were the books from the top shelf?

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  3. "It looks like this disgraceful and inappropriate display by this art group in Redbridge is going to have a lot of fall out."

    It always looks that way at first. But...what really happens to those responsible? I suspect the andswer is 'nothing'.

    "...and were the books from the top shelf?"

    🤣

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