Racism of the Beatles

It seems The Beatles had a beef with Turks or had too much drug in their bloodstream (more likely, both). A clever word-play with snapping turtles brought out a mean creature in The Beatles' animated music fantasy film, "Yellow submarine."

The snapping Turks!



They even have a Facebook page dedicated to them:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Snapping-Turks/262652325358

These short, fat meanies wear Fez with curved Arabic shoes and have mustaches associated with Turkish men. One of them eats a little girl’s paper windmill to make her cry. At this point, The Beatles perhaps fortunately run out of racist stereotypes.

You have to ask yourself only one question: bad music is one thing, but in your face racism???

P.S. The Yellow Submarine is free to download on iTunes as a children's book.