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CLAREMONT, Calif., Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Kindergartens in Claremont, Calif., canceled a Thanksgiving dress up after some parents criticized the tradition as demeaning to American Indians.
Until this year, Claremont kindergarten classes had celebrated the Tuesday before Thanksgiving by dressing as pilgrims and American Indians who share a feast and sing songs.
This year, educators canceled the dress up part after Michelle Raheja, the mother of a kindergartner at Condit Elementary School, said the schools were perpetuating a racist cartoonish stereotype, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
"I'm sure you can appreciate the inappropriateness of asking children to dress up like slaves (and kind slave masters), or Jews (and friendly Nazis), or members of any other racial minority group who has struggled in our nation's history," said Raheja, whose mother is a member of the Seneca tribe.
Parents angry that the event was to be held without costumes accused Raheja and her supporters of being elitists determined to inject politics into a simple children's celebration, the Times reported.
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