Brownies to be renamed Embers in effort to remove barriers for racialized kids | CBC News

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[–]Haylstorm 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Especially when it's just named after a helpful household spirit. You know one that embodies a lot of what the movement was meant to be about?

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I mean part of that mythology is that fairy folk in the British Isles used to be small and dark-skinned so it's not completely unrelated to racial issues.