Posted on 07/12/2007 6:40:27 AM PDT by yankeedame
But that's a book for adults. At the end of the book, he changes his mind and comes to a whole different realization. I read the book hesitantly, and it turned out to be a good book.
All that said, I never heard of the Tintin books. I'll reserve comment until I look at "Tintin in the Congo" for myself.
It’s nice to see such a reasonable post now and then. :-)
Here are a couple of excerpts that shed more light on the subject:
David Enright, a London-based human-rights lawyer, was shopping at Borders with his family when he came upon the book, first published in 1931, and opened it to find what he characterized as racist abuse.
When an unexpurgated edition was brought out in Britain in 2005, it came wrapped with a warning and was written with a forward explaining the work's colonial context.
Enright, who said he first complained to Borders and Britain's Commission for Racial Equality about a month ago, argued such a warning was not enough.
"Whether it's got a piece of flimsy paper around it or not, it's irrelevant, it's in the children's section," he said, adding that he felt the book should be treated like pornography or anti-Semitic literature and not displayed in mainstream bookstores at all.
Nothing like walking into a bookstore with your agenda already in hand.
LOL.
I actually miss a lot of our more, uh, interesting posters... f.christian, TLBSHOW, AAPATRIOT, that crotchety old anti-Semite whose name escapes me right now, the green bikini'd didgeridoo player...
= )
Don’t forget MurryMom, although I think she still pops up now and again.
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