No: it could also be that Kermit really did mean those words, in the way they are so frequently re-interpreted today: i.e. In other words: when Kermit The Frog sang so wistfully about all the difficulties he faced, as a direct consequence of his own skin-colour… he was not merely confronting the sheer absurdity of ‘racism’ (a connection that is already widely recognised and certainly WAS intentional, on Jim Henson’s part)… Now: I admit that the following thought only just struck me, literally as I was writing the last sentence: but with hindsight, I realise that those same ‘political connotations’ – anachronistic though they may appear, when applied to a 1970s children’s TV show – may have all along been INTENTIONAL. If nothing else, because it has become a standard way of referring to all the ‘difficulties’ traditionally faced by Green Parties – and environmentalists, in general – in the context of local and international politics. If, like me, you were brought up on Jim Henson’s ‘The Muppet Show’, you will instantly recognise that headline as a reference to its most famous protagonist, Kermit the Frog… who once sang (from purely personal experience) that: ‘It’s not easy being Green.’īut even if the names Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, The Great Gonzo, etc., mean nothing to you, at all: there’s still a good chance you’ll be familiar with that song-title anyway.
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