Blacks Demand Fox Apologize for Stamps
A group representing about 50,000 black people on Mexico’s Pacific coast demanded that President Vicente Fox apologize for a set of postage stamps featuring a black comic book figure that U.S. civil rights groups have called racist.
In a letter, the group said that the character “Memin Pinguin rewards, celebrates, typifies and cements the distorted, mocking, stereotypical and limited vision of black people in general.”
Fox and other Mexican officials have defended the new series of postage stamps as a beloved part of the nation’s culture.
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