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It's a great list,if you are white,upper-middle-class living in an intellectual paradise. I teach and am the school librarian for the children who are too poor and too black to ever be a photo-op for any politician...in New Orleans, Louisiana. My group of students are kindergarten through 8th grade, ages 5 to 15. Many of my students were at the Superdome and the Convention Center,so to be honest,your list will not resonate to them. I get them to laugh by showing, in the library, The Three Stooges, white men that are safe to laugh at.My children lived through a war,are still living through a war brought on by gangs, drugs, and a century and a half of corrupt politicians and grown-ups who don't care.In essence, my children live in a much too real world for most of the movies your readers suggest. They like Dumbo because his moms was willing to go to the joint to protect him. Incarceration is a fact in their lives.Would love your suggestions for poor, black, inner-city kids in New Orleans. The 5th-8th graders loved the National Geographic DVD on Hurricane Katrina; many saw themselves/realtives/neighbors in the crowd scenes.Perhaps white children should also view the Katrina DVD?
Respectfully, aka Mrs.Caspar the friendly white ghost
