"Absurd censorship:" Changes to Roald Dahl's books spark criticism

[Effete Snob]

43. So you think Dahl was wrong?

Dahl revised Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to address the origin story of the Oompa Loompas in his original first edition.

In the version first published, [the Oompa-Loompas were] a tribe of 3,000 amiable black pygmies who have been imported by Mr. Willy Wonka from ‘the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before.’ Mr. Wonka keeps them in the factory, where they have replaced the sacked white workers.

Dahl changed it:

I created a group of little fantasy creatures…. I saw them as charming creatures, whereas the white kids in the books were… most unpleasant. It didn’t occur to me that my depiction of the Oompa-Loompas was racist, but it did occur to the NAACP and others…. After listening to the criticisms, I found myself sympathizing with them, which is why I revised the book.

So, are you also taking issue with him and demanding that the original version be published instead?