'Racist' Tintin book has to go, says CRE

[Nicholas]

The Commission for Racial Equality has labelled a Tintin book racist and criticised a high street book chain for stocking the title.
The CRE says Tintin in the Congo makes black people "look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles".
It has called on Borders to remove it from sale due to what it deems offensive content.

A CRE spokeswoman said: "This book contains imagery and words of hideous racial prejudice, where the 'savage natives' look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles...................

'Racist' Tintin book has to go, says CRE | Uk News | News | Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/11/ntintin111.xml)

[ron7055]

funny that...but i find the lyrics in a lot of rap songs grossly offensive!and what about islamic litrature?i feel uncomfortable with these people fanatically calling for all westerners and christians to be be-headed!

[Nicholas]

I think they should ban the CRE. Tintin is a part of european cultural history(plenty of children grew up with these books including myself) , and what the CRE is trying to do is rewrite history. You cant just airbrush over the things we do not agree with.

[Nicholas]

Sales of a Tintin comic book have rocketed by 3,800 per cent after Britain's equality watchdog claimed that it depicted "hideous racial prejudice".

The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) condemned Tintin In The Congo for making black people "look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles" and called for it to be taken off the shelves.

But its intervention seems only to have increased the popularity of the controversial book about the boy reporter, as by last night it had reached number eight on Amazon's most popular books list..........

Race row Tintin is best-seller | Uk News | News | Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/14/ntintin114.xml)

you can buy the book here:

Amazon.co.uk: Tintin in the Congo (Tintin): Books: Herge (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tintin-Congo-Herge/dp/1405220988)

[unafraid2007]

The Commission for Racial Equality has labelled a Tintin book racist and criticised a high street book chain for stocking the title.
The CRE says Tintin in the Congo makes black people "look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles".
It has called on Borders to remove it from sale due to what it deems offensive content.

Oh for christ's sake, what's next?

I have an idea, let's all just pretend the first black people were not unevolved savages who lived in the jungles of Africa, and completely erase this from human history. The truth is, afterall, only there to be denied by those it offends, right?