Tintin in the Trash Bin?
Borders Stores in the UK are removing the Tintin Graphic Novel “Tintin in the Congo” after a customer complained the book was racist. The book does contain racist depictions of Africans as subhuman savages who come to worship Tintin and his dog Snowy as gods. The book as been widely referred to as racist and has not been available in an unedited version until 2005, which featured a disclaimer explaining about the colonial period in which it took place. The customer was not fully happy with Borders decision and wanted the book removed from the store like other racist material.