The black blogosphere has gone postal over the last 48 hours. The reason? Mexico's new series of stamps, which feature cartoon character Memin Pinguin.
Black Informant: If Vicente Fox and the gang down there have no problem with this craziness, then maybe a couple of nationwide boycotts are in order.
La Shawn Barber: Whenever I see racist caricatures of blacks from back in the day, I cringe. To think there was a time in the U.S. when whites openly mocked and ridiculed blacks with these exaggerated stereotypes, and blackface comedy was all the rage.
Professor Kim's News Notes: But what this controversy shows, above all else, is yet another dimension of the complexity of racial discourse in a world in which so much of the history of racism still remains to be acknowledged and unraveled.
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