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11/28/2007: "Play banned for original but changed (1970) offensive name"

Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians" was to be performed by students at Lakota East High School this weekend.

The play is based on Christie's 1939 mystery novel.

But local NAACP president Gary Hines says the play is inappropriate for a school production because the original title for Christie's novel used a racial slur.

Lakota East senior Luke Null, who was to play 1 of the lead characters, says the play itself has no racial undertones.

[ The play has nothing to do with race except for its use of some hilarious English children's rhyme about counting Africans (someone explain this to me). The ten "Africans" in the story are all white college students. ]

http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=7412673