Tintin's Congo Adventure 'Not Racist', Court Says

A Belgian court says the cartoon, which is sold in the UK with the warning it includes racist content, is "full of gentle humour".

Tintin in the Congo is not racist, but a story full of "gentle and candid humour", according to the Belgian Appeals court.

The second of Herge's adventures of the boy reporter and his dog Tintin features the character of a stupid black helper and a woman who at one point says: "White man very great."

The cartoon strip, which was written in the 1920s, is sold in Britain with the warning that it includes racist content, following a ruling in a British court in 2007.

However, the Belgian court rejected claims of racism and the argument that the book was full of negative racist attitudes that could still have an impact on children who read it today.

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