Am I the only person alive willing to say I loved watching The Black and White Minstrel Show?   Despite always being unable to sing in tune (I even mime or keep my mouth shut when the National Anthem is played and sung to), I sang along with gusto (the fourth tenor from the left).

Just as I expect an actress playing a queen to be dressed for the part, and Peter Pan's Captain Hook to have a hook not unlike Abu Hamza's, I expected some of the male singers to be blacked up. Of course it was known they were Europeans – one only had to look at their narrow noses.   I am not surprised that blue and yellow make-up was used in black-and-white TV days; yellow filters are used to bring out white clouds when using black-and-white film.

As for "He's been tanning natives, out in Timbuktu", that is just what the Sun does to natives (people born in a certain place) all over the world - to different degrees. The result? Well, look around you.   What if the line had been, "He's been tanning natives out in South West Two" (part of London, m'lud)? Or "Out in Kalamazoo (a town in Michigan, Mr President)?      

When spending a week in the town in 1974 - on a five month overland trip up through Africa - I certainly saw no peanuts being naturally tanned. Which PC European, who most likely could not even say which country Timbuktu is in, thought up that lame line?

Is it racist to say "from here to Timbuktu" to mean a long distance? How about the song "It's a long way to Tipperary"? Offensive to Eireans (that's the southern Irish)?

I felt hurt when Peter Cook and Dudley Moore did their Spotty Muldoon sketch – I had severe acne at the time. Should it have been banned? No!

As for taking offence at Coward's "with assistance from the Jews" line in "The Stately Homes of England", were bankers such as Rothschilds, etc not all Jews? And many if not most pawnbrokers? How can the truth be "racist", unacceptable, offensive"?

Seeing what today's money men (including a fair smattering of Jews - people who told the whole world they were/are "The Chosen People of God") have done with our savings (my £60,000 with RBS is now worth some £3,000), " with assistance from the Jews" could well be changed to "with assistance from the Banks" – or, better still Bankers – spelled with a W.

As for my given name Morena Thabo – it is Sesotho, and translates as Chief or Lord Happiness.