Tintin In the Congo
March 5, 2008 – 8:38 pm
Tintin In The Congo is a series of comic strips in a book, written in 1931 by Belgian author Herge.
In July of 2007, Britain’s equality watchdog (The Commission for Racial Equality) came down hard on the book, accusing it of making black people “look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles”. They also added that it depicted “hideous racial prejudice” and they called for it to be banned.
This caused sales of the book to jump by 3800%. In fact, a few days after they called for the book to be banned, it had climbed to number eight on Amazon’s most popular books list. Four days earlier, it had been at #4,343.
