Racist Postal Stamp?

[ls317]

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- The Mexican government has issued a postage stamp depicting an exaggerated black cartoon character known as Memin Pinguin, just weeks after remarks by President Vicente Fox angered U.S. blacks.

The series of five stamps released for general use Wednesday depicts a child character from a comic book started in the 1940s that is still published in Mexico.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/06/...p.ap/index.html

[paula777]

1. Uh, yah, I would say that's offensive to everyone with sense

your link didn't work for me but here's another

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/06/29/mexico.stamp.ap/index.html

[48pan]

2. Mexico isn't doing very well lately.

[eternalburn]

3. Google image search results........

http://images.google.com/images?q=Memin%20Pinguin&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-14,GGLD:en&sa=N&tab=wi