al-the-grammar-geek:cumaeansibyl:femininefreak:Mr. Rogers once sued the Klan.source: http://www.nyti
al-the-grammar-geek:cumaeansibyl:femininefreak:Mr. Rogers once sued the Klan.source: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/21/us/3-to-stop-racist-talks-in-mister-rogers-tone.htmlI can barely comprehend the image of an angry Mr. Rogers, and yet if you had asked me what could possibly produce this effect, I would’ve guessed something like this: targeting young children with messages of hate.[Image of a printed TV Guide interview article]“TVG: When do you get angry? Where does Mr. Rogers draw the line?MR. ROGERS: I was incensed by what the Ku Klux Klan did recently. I am hardly a suing person, and yet that just got my goat. Members of the Ku Klux Klan were giving out a telephone number in the schoolyard, and these kids were calling the number. There was a Mister Rogers sound-alike voice on it with terribly racist messages. I just saw red. And so we sued them and we won. Maybe it’s strange, but the only thing that really angers me is something that’s demeaning to somebody else.” -- source link
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