Their justification…is that the comic book is racist, Mexicans say no way… Is Wal-Mart over reacting? Voice your opinion…Take the poll at the end of this post! As I am,
Here is news story I found interesting. Memin Pinguin, the south of the border comic book character that started all that trouble when the Mexican goverment sanctioned a 5 stamp postage collection a few years back is at it again. It seems Memin has crossed the border and made it to the mainstream only to be snatched out of Wal-mart and thrust back into virtual obscurity.
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Originally posted at Dallas News
Mexican comic book ‘Memin Pinguin’ sold at Wal-Mart called racist
11:30 AM CDT on Tuesday, July 8, 2008
HOUSTON — Shawnedria McGinty was not sure what to think when she saw the comic book series Memin Pinguin on shelves at her local Wal-Mart. After flipping through the popular Mexican comic book, one word came to mind – racist. “OK, is it a monkey or a boy? … So, I opened the book up,” she said. “This is, you know, rude.” Historically, Memin Pinguin has been hugely popular on newsstands in Mexico and Latin America and has sales in the millions. Originally published in the 1960s, it was recently re-issued and available in Wal-Marts north of the border. “They are calling him names. They call him an animal in one section. His mom is spanking his butt and it looks like they are drowning him,” said McGinty, who went so far as to buy a Spanish dictionary to better understand the comic books. She found one passage particularly offensive. In the frame, Memin Pinguin is being kicked by a light-skinned man and called “a black troublemaker.”
that cartoon is super racist! in latin america racism is worse than in the US b/c it’s so much more visible, open, and acceptable. The people whom it affects are too powerless to do anything about it. but since we can do something and know better, we def should speak up.
In all of these countries, they are very racist against the black and native peoples, and think that the white skin toned people are superior. historically, that is why white people in those countries are generally from the higher classes; b.c of the world’s history of slavery and that whole ‘discovery’ period where the native people of those countries were oppressed and still are to this day. It’s really sad. that cartoon i bet, was not made by a black hispanic, but by some racist white hispanic.
i was actually watching some old goldwin meyer (american) cartoons the other day, and noticed how insanely racist they were! and they were on cartoon network! they displayed the confederate flag and these black bears that really were made out to make fun of african americans; but quite explicitly. i was shocked to say the least!
i am not very fond of old cartoons anymore.