OTTAWA - “Kemosabe”, the name given to the Lone Ranger by his friend Tonto in the 1950s TV western “The Lone Ranger”, is not a racist term, a Canadian court has found.
The ruling was delivered by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal last week in a case involving a native Canadian woman who complained that the manager of the store where she worked had created a poisoned environment by calling her kemosabe.
The manager of the second-hand sports store, in Sydney, Nova Scotia, argued kemosabe was a term he used to address customers as well as employees.
The court ruling confirmed a earlier decision by a Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission board of inquiry. That decision was made after the board spent a full shift watching “Lone Ranger” reruns.
Thank god our legal system was on top of this. Whew!
I can now call you 'Kemosabe' when ever I feel like it, so get over it!
