Nigger singers with their faces blacked singing minstrel songs. In the song "", the Mikado sings of the punishment for older women who dye their hair or wear corsets, to be "Blacked like a nigger/With permanent walnut juice." Both lyrics are usually changed for modern performances. The word "nigger" appears in children's literature. "How the Leopard Got His Spots", in the "Just So Stories" (1902) by Rudyard Kipling, tells of an Ethiopian man and a leopard, both originally sand-colored, deciding to camouflage themselves with painted spots, for hunting in tropical forest. The story originally included a scene wherein the leopard (now
The Ink Spots Of Somebody Else". The Ink Spots' music has been used in the films "Get Low", "Radio Days", "Raging Bull", "Revolutionary Road", "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Aviator", "Iris", "Sphere", "Tree's Lounge", "Malcolm X", "Maria's Lovers", "How to Make an American Quilt", "Men Don't Leave", "Drei D", "Joe Versus The Volcano", "Spontaneous Combustion", "", "Australia", "Hyde Park on Hudson", "The Rover", "Twenty Bucks", "Manchester by the Sea" and "Logorama". The Ink Spots' music has been used in such TV shows as "The Walking Dead", "The Simpsons", "The Visitor", "The Singing Detective", "Sanford", "The Blacklist", "Defiance", "Arrested Development", "Better Call Saul", "White Collar",