![]() ![]() I could post many more cringe-worthy excerpts, but why bother? (Dog) “That Snowy…what a guy!” Note in the upper left-hand corner: fetish statues of Tintin and Snowy before which a Black man kneels in worship. “Never again me him see a boula-matari like Tintin” “And if you no be good you’ll never be like Tintin!” “If him no come in 1 year and 1 day it for you…” “And to say that in Belgium all the li’l Whites are like Tintin!” Similar lawsuits have been brought in France and in Britain. It’s been banished from the children’s section in bookshops and libraries across America and the UK, in chains such as Border’s.įinally, following a lawsuit brought by a Congolese student, Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, a court in Brussels is to determine whether the book should be banned in Belgium. In Britain, the Commission for Racial Equality has condemned the book’s “abominable” racism (and proving once more that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, its sales have jumped 5000% on Amazon UK). ![]() The children’s comics album Tintin au Congo, by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, has been much in the news of late– and not in a good way. ![]()
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