Memin Pinguin Comic Called Racist

I think I understand the story: apparently Spanish-language comic books featuring the Mexican comics icon Memin Pinguin are being sold at a Wal-Mart in Texas (I checked this morning; they're not being sold at this New Mexico location), someone picked up the book that doesn't have Mexico's years of exposure to the character and the attitudes which have developed around it that seem to make it immune in that country to most objections regarding the physical depiction of black people, and now they're objecting to that depiction to the press because Wal-Mart won't reply.

I don't really know what to do with a story like this other than say, "there it is," and to share what is probably the first thought on a lot of folks' mind, that above and beyond the question of its inappropriateness and offense it's an amazing thing that someone buying the book for display wouldn't look at it and decide that it's maybe a bad idea to put it on the stands in a place that reaches such a diverse, mass audience. Doubly so in this case, as I thought Wal-Mart stock buying was a pretty rigorous process. I could be wrong. As a sideline, this is the only comic I've heard about being sold at the retail giant since some manga-sized, movie-photo adaptations a couple of years back, although I never pay attention to that kind of thing so I'm likely missing Shonen Jump and a bunch of others.
 
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