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Thread ID: 18931 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-07-01
2005-07-01 07:10 | User Profile
[QUOTE]The Mexican government issued a series of stamps yesterday depicting a dark-skinned Jim Crow-era cartoon character with greatly exaggerated eyes and lips, infuriating black and Hispanic civil rights leaders for the second time in weeks.[/QUOTE] More with stamp photos here [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/29/AR2005062902831.html[/url]
2005-07-02 15:45 | User Profile
[QUOTE=robinder]More with stamp photos here [url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/29/AR2005062902831.html"]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/29/AR2005062902831.html[/url][/QUOTE] Thanks for the laugh, some things are simply too funny.
2005-07-02 22:22 | User Profile
Mexicans aren't as culturally sensitive in their views and attitudes towards blacks as Americans when it comes to this sort of thing. Can you imagine what an uproar would be created in the states if such a stamp were proposed here?
[QUOTE]"It is offensive," said the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, who like other leaders called on Mexican President Vicente Fox to apologize and stop circulation of the stamps. Jackson vowed to lead a demonstration at Mexican consulates if Fox does not do so.
It was the second time in seven weeks that Jackson called on Fox to apologize for a racial offense. In May, Fox apologized for saying that Mexican migrants in the United States work jobs that "even blacks don't want," a comment he said was taken out of context.[/QUOTE]