Tintin's Congo book

Tintin's Congo book moved out of children's section in race row

Thursday July 12, 2007
The Guardian

'Hideous racial prejudice' ... the Commission for Racial Equality's verdict on Tintin in the Congo.

The adventures of Tintin in the Congo will be moved from the children's shelves in Borders bookstores across the country and placed in the adult graphic novels section after the book was criticised for having allegedly racist content.

The book, which includes a scene where Tintin is made chief of an African village because he is a "good white man" and a black woman bowing to Tintin saying: "White man very great ... white mister is big juju man!" was highly offensive, a spokeswoman from the commission said.

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

There ain't no such thing as bad publicity , it's obvious !

Recently , Tintin in Congo was a controversial matter since it displayed the natives as extremely stupid , people who worshiped him and his dog as Gods. While I'm against that , ever since The Commission for Racial Equality called the book "Hideous racial prejudice" , believe it or not , Tintin In Congo sales raised by 3800 % and slipped into No 8 in Amazon.com's to books !