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ls317 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 02:10 PM
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Racist Postal Stamp?
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
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paula777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 02:11 PM
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1. Uh, yah, I would say that's offensive to everyone with sense
Edited on Wed Jun-29-05 02:12 PM by paula777
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
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48pan Donating Member (957 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 02:23 PM
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2. Mexico isn't doing very well lately.
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eternalburn Donating Member (400 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 02:23 PM
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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
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