Caricature On Safari Train At Greenwich Holiday Festival Deemed Racist By Some
GREENWICH, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Holiday festival in Greenwich is being criticized for a children's ride that includes what some festival goers saw as a racist caricature that depicts a black cannibal in a loincloth trying to cook a white man.
The Greenwich Time reports the images appeared on the "Safari Train'' at the Sam Bridge Nursery's Reindeer Festival.
The black man is depicted with oversized red lips and a bone in his hair.
Lauren Lodato, who is studying for a graduate degree in early childhood education, says she complained to management after visiting the festival. She says it perpetuates inappropriate stereotypes.
Event organizer TMK Sports and Entertainment says the train is "telling a story'' and "absolutely not racially inappropriate.''
The train's owner, Marenna Amusements, said they have never had a complaint.
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