Comic Stokes Racial Tensions in Texas

“Activist” demands Wal Mart stop selling comic book

Memín Pinguín, a comic book character highly popular in Mexico, has drawn a new round of controversy, now in Houston, after http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4867 boy?” black shopper Shawnedria McGinty told the Chronicle. “I was so upset. This is 2008.”

Memín Pinguín has monkeylike features reminiscent of Jazz Age and blackface “darky” images, and is enormously popular in the Spanish speaking world, where grownups regularly read comic books and whose cultural tastes often seem very unique to outsiders. The comics sell an estimated 100,000 weekly copies in Latin America, where political correctness is unheard of and where blacks are second class citizens.

Memín Pinguín caused controversy in the United States in 2005 when Mexico’s postal service issued a commemorative stamp series. As with anything racial involving blacks, race hustlers were drawn to the fray, led by http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4079, led by Khalid Abdul Muhammad.

Quanell’s bodyguard, Jeffrey Battle, is now serving an 18 year sentence for attempting to aid the Taliban after 9/11. Quanell is no slouch in http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4784." He campaigns vigorously to have Houston pay slave reparations, and has served as a middleman to arrange the surrender of a black cop shooter.

Quanell’s latest effort was against http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5065, the white hero recently cleared in the shooting of two Spanish speaking black illegal alien burglars.

Quanell’s involvement reflects a growing divide between blacks and Hispanics, who compete for scarce social resources. In some places, especially Los Angeles, Hispanic gangs have ethnically cleansed whole neighborhoods of blacks, while a small but increasingly important segment of black leadership have abandoned the myth of nonwhite unity in the face of “white oppression” and have joined forces with border control advocates.  

2008-07-08