Another victim of political correctness

I don't remember much about the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's," which I saw 30-40 years ago, but I'm sure it didn't turn me into a racist, then, or in the years since.

The City of Sacramento had scheduled to show that film at its free summer Screen on the Green movie series, but Jerry Chong of CAPITAL (the pretentious Council of Asian Pacific Islanders Together for Advocacy and Leadership) objected, because of Mickey Rooney's caricature of Mr. Yunioshi, the funny neighbor. As a result, the film was withdrawn, and "Ratatouille" substituted.

As Mr. Rooney himself subsequently said, he meant no disrespect, and he just created some zany comic relief for the light-hearted love story. It wasn't memorable, although Mickey says he shows clips of it in his current stage act. . . no racism intended.

The Vice Mayor of Sacramento, Steve Cohn (I hope he's Jewish), in announcing the change, skewered Chong's pomposity when he said he didn't expect any animal rights activists to protest, since "rats are pretty well-represented in ['Ratatouille']," but the film's depiction of "stuffy French people" might offend someone.

When will it end? This obsession with political correctness. I am part German, part Polish. Should I protest Sgt. Schultz of "Hogan's Heroes" for being portrayed as stupid, and Sgt. Wojohowicz of "Barney Miller" for being naive? Don't we have enough real racism to allow ourselves to be offended by?