The Story of the Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman told a story of this little black boy who gotten all of his nice clothes taken by some tigers he met in the woods, however he was able to get them back after the tigers had an argument over which one of them was the grandest. Overall, I felt like the story itself had no sort of significance in terms of racism or race relations. However, I do think that the illustrations of the characters are rather too similar to the white people in black face that played in minstrel shows. The Little Brown and Little Black Sambo article does try to defend Bannerman, stating that the characters can be taken in differently by whoever read the story, but I don’t entirely agree with that.  Little Black Sambo is claimed to be an South Asian Indian story, however I didn’t see anything that resembled the way Indian people look to my knowledge at all. As far as the illustrations, if the story were indeed about Indians  I feel as if the people who drew these pictures didn’t have to make the Sambo family as dark as they did. I have never saw any one person whether they are Indian, African or African American who looks a monstrous as the characters in this book; but I do know that black people were looked upon as these ugly less attractive figures that are demonstrated in this text during the times of slaver. Also the fact that Little Sambo and his family has bright pink lips also leads me to believe that this text was solely meant to portray the way whites saw blacks during this time period.