Posted on 09/02/2009 9:05:38 PM PDT by paudio
Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, 41, is taking legal action claiming Hergé's controversial Tintin In The Congo is propaganda for colonialism and amounts to "racism and xenophobia".
"Tintin's little (black) helper is seen as stupid and without qualities. It makes people think that blacks have not evolved," he said.
Mr Mbutu Mondondo launched a case in Belgium two years ago for symbolic damages of one euro from Tintin's Belgian publishers Moulinsart, and demanded the book be withdrawn from the market.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Next he’ll be filing suit against the Asterix books because they make Romans look like morons! Always gotta be something to litigate!
This reminds me of some of those barf-worthy notices they’re attaching to old films these days explaining that there may be stereotypes in the film, but they were left in to reflect the times. Oh, keep your nose out of my old films!
Now they want to back censor?
Another rent-seeker. How original.
Oh please! Colonialism was no worse, and arguably better, than the chaos and unrestrained violence they have there now.
Only “arguably”?
Thunderbirds are Go? 
Wait a minute.
“’...It makes people think that blacks have not evolved,’ he said.”
Evolved from what?! That’s quite a racist statement there.
Take a trip to Africa. Cradle of mankind. But yet they all still live at the tribal level right down to politics. Nobody can get ahead of the chiefs,, not more friends, more money, more ideas/// cuzz if any man excells, the people are preconditioned to pull him down.
Show me one invention other than the mortar and pestle. Show me their humanity... Africans are the most racist going! Thats why the periodical genocides....
Ping.
Almost all Tintin books contain stereotypes of one form or another. I’m surprised the Arabs haven’t jumped all over this, too.
The Bordurians were made out to look like Soviet thugs, but you don’t hear them complaining! ;^)
That’s cultural, not evolutionary. If he’s said ‘black African culture has not evolved’ I would probably still have a problem with his complaining, but it wouldn’t sound so racist.
“Tintin’s little (black) helper is seen as stupid and without qualities. It makes people think that blacks have not evolved,” he said.
no, I think people who just do nothing but sue all day give that impression.
I grew up with Tintin books. Herge stereotyped everyone and he did it well. Chinese, Japanese, South Americans, North Americans, Middle Eastern, Muslums. I have every book and occasionally read one even now. Red Rackums Treasure is my favorite.
Boy, times have changed. The only people we can depict now as imbeciles are white men.
Whatever happened to Sambo's Pancake House?
Nam Vet
The beauty of Africa is grandiose, and the potential excepting the upper third, is huge however it is quickly eroded by tribalism, corruption, uncle zoeee and his marriage to islam and their ability to relate to voodoo. Throughout africa the black heart and related corruption still prevails and their ability to get ahead is thereby limited.
The best thing that happened to them IS colonialism as bad an experience as it was. Look to Canada and Australia as examples of what colonialism can produce!
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