"Sambo" was portrayed as an East Indian ("Dot Indian") boy, wasn't he? If I recall, the restaurant's mascot was relatively fair-skinned, and wore a turban, slippers with curly toes, etc. He was NOT portrayed as being lazy, stupid, or as having any other negative qualities.
His "main adversary" was a tiger - not native to Africa.
So who, exactly, complained? And did they manage to present a coherent argument for why it was "bigoted?"
Nah, didn't think so!
Regards,
What’s truth got to do with it?