Rastamouse

Spare me the controversy surrounding reggae ridim king Rastamouse and his band, Da Easy Crew. The new hit CBeebies animation is currently enrapturing rugrats, not to mention big kids like Lily Allen and Dizzee Rascal too. Despite RM’s admirable mission to ‘make bad tings good’, publications such as The Guardian wonder ‘Is Rastamouse a righteous rodent or rank stereotype?’ Outraged of Tunbridge Wells rants about Jamaican patois corrupting the mother tongue. Please! One of the joys of English is its willingness to evolve by absorbing other cultures’ lingo, capisce? Others, such as Reggae Reggae Sauce's Levi Roots, reportedly,  condemn Rastafarians being portrayed as mice (as opposed to lions, presumably) as blatantly racist.  Get over yourselves! Rastamouse is a ranking role model, the cutest, cuddliest mega-star since that (Russian) meerkat. Reespek to his creator, author Michael de Souza, a proud Rastafarian.