This is just asking for DOGE to peel the lid off.
How come "play" is a 'black' thing?
I don't recall it being so ethnocentric.
Aside from sports 'toys'(various balls, gloves, bats, and such), and stacks of board games and puzzles (and worn out decks of cards), we played 'army' (against "Germans"--hardly 'racist'--even though that was a couple wars back), often with nothing better than dirt clod 'grenades' and sticks that were shaped well enough to resemble rifles or machine guns. Cops and Robbers took a little more hardware than we had, and Cowboys and Indians was much the same.
Some of us even had cap guns, and the Holy Grail was the Mattel Tommy Gun. If someone had some toy 'kit' it was shared out for the duration, that way we were all 'armed'. When we didn't have a quorum for combat, other toys included Tonka trucks (considered high end), train sets, slot cars (either was the 'big item' on a Christmas wish list), and Matchbox (later, Hot Wheels) and Tootsietoy cars and divisions of green and gray plastic army soldiers...
Will they include the 'toys' so many of us played with as kids?
As for ethnocentricity, kids will play games, even without toys--from simple 'tag' to 'capture the flag', and color isn't a factor there until the adults make it one.
So, by all means, as we tear down statues and remove names of military leaders from installations, let's enshrine the prejudices of the parents in a museum and call it "play".
How about ditching the victimhood, and concentrating on playing?
