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Jul 08
2008

Racist comic book sold in Wal-Mart

Posted by gcuse03champs in Untagged 

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Memin Pinquin is a Mexican Comic Book that features what i supposed to be a black boy. Problem is the character looks like a monkey. The comic book was recently seen in a Walmart store here in the United States. It was in a store in Houston and while that store removed it the comic books was found in other Houston area Wal-Marts. Click the link below to read more:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html


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written by Dr. Marco Polo Hernandez Cuevas , July 09, 2008
Regarding the structural violence deployed by Memin's image, see my video "Memin Pinguin: the Structural Violence of an Image" at:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=J1stcT45QPs
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written by Roger Madison, III. , July 09, 2008
I didn't see the video at that link, but I found it on YouTube and added it to our site.

Click here to view it.


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