Click to play videoLondon: The famous comic book hero Tintin is in trouble again. And this time it’s the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) of Britain that’s targeting him.
Britain's official watchdog for racism, the CRE, claims the book Tintin in the Congo, contains racist prejudices and has recommended stopping its sale.
The Commission says the book is offensive to the 'black' community. But this has put its publishers in a fix given the book's immense popularity.
“We are responding to a very legitimate consumer complain. A man walks into a book store with his African wife, and his mixed race children, and he is confronted with something that is shocking, insulting, out of time and place in London in the 21st century,” says Alan Christie of CRE.
After CRE's censure, many leading bookstores across the United Kingdom have categorised the books under the adult section. So 75 years after its publication the book seems to be in serious trouble now.
The tufty-haired Tintin first appeared in 1929 and featured in adventures until 1976, selling more than 200 million copies worldwide.
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