Cross-Complaint Against Racism In Tintin Au Congo To Be Filed In French Court

Le Parisien is among the French-language news services to note that Mbutu Mondondo is planning on a cross-complaint in French courts to his Belgium court complaint against the publisher Moulinsart for what he characterizes as insurmountable anti-Congolese racism of Herge's controversial Tintin au Congo. The article talks about the depictions in mostly ameliorative terms, talking about changes made to the text, Herge's own statements regarding the time in which his distressing depictions were drawn, and the notion that looking at a book from 1931 as if it's some sort of fresh or ongoing assault on racial identity, without at least some conception of other cultural factors whether or not this extends to forgiveness, is intellectually dishonest.
 
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