Comments on: Tintin in the Congo, and Corto Maltese https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/03/tintin-in-the-congo-and-corto-maltese/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:14:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: M. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/03/tintin-in-the-congo-and-corto-maltese/#comment-195947 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:14:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=17708#comment-195947 Back in the 1970s, we girls at St Dorothy’s School in Sliema knitted golliwogs in the classroom while the boys played football in the yard.

The Andy Pandy books featured a character called Golly, and those who went to London on holiday generally booked in to see The Black and White Minstrel Show, in which white performers wore black make-up like an Al Jolson parody.

It’s just the way things were then.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/24/golliwog-race-charges-dropped-jena-mason

]]> By: dudu https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/03/tintin-in-the-congo-and-corto-maltese/#comment-195944 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:57:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=17708#comment-195944 It seems that Maltese news portals have not seen this yet:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2110435/Lockerbie-bomber-Al-Megrahi-visited-Malta-sex-mistress-night-atrocity-according-secret-documents.html

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/03/tintin-in-the-congo-and-corto-maltese/#comment-195924 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:20:59 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=17708#comment-195924 How about having Corto’s birthday party in Strada Stretta? It doesn’t get more authentic than that.

]]> By: bookworm https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/03/tintin-in-the-congo-and-corto-maltese/#comment-195899 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:55:48 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=17708#comment-195899 I just love Corto Maltese. I bought a DVD collection recently. I think that a story, whichever way it’s told, has to be interpreted within its context and era.

]]> By: James Galea https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/03/tintin-in-the-congo-and-corto-maltese/#comment-195854 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:18:46 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=17708#comment-195854 Ummm, actually Violet Elisabeth Bott would threaten to’ thcream and thcream until she was thick’, if I remember correctly.

]]> By: Darren https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/03/tintin-in-the-congo-and-corto-maltese/#comment-195801 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:28:14 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=17708#comment-195801 Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about films based on true life events. During World War 2, Commander Guy Gibson owned a labrador, whom he called nigger. This was faithfully reproduced in the 1955 film ‘The Dam busters’, yet it was recently censored, the word ‘nigger completely deleted.

The same can be said about the cartoon series ‘Tom & Jerry’; a recurring character was a fat black maid (similar in appearance to ‘Mammy’ from ‘Gone with the Wind’), in later screenings she was replaced by a petite dumb blonde.

]]> By: Sowerberry https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/03/tintin-in-the-congo-and-corto-maltese/#comment-195729 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:33:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=17708#comment-195729 Here we go again……..

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120305/local/Debono-I-should-be-special-delegate.409658

]]> By: SC https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/03/tintin-in-the-congo-and-corto-maltese/#comment-195720 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:03:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=17708#comment-195720 Does he not realise that by raising this issue he has caused much more ‘damage’? He has made this international news.

This reminds me of the sexist adverts from the 50s and 60s. We look at them now and we are shocked because things have moved on so much. Women don’t go trying to sue ad agencies from back then.

I hate it when individuals get a bee in their bonnet and try and rope everyone else in.

]]> By: cat https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/03/tintin-in-the-congo-and-corto-maltese/#comment-195714 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:58:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=17708#comment-195714 Just a few years ago, in a state school classroom, I saw a poster with the legend: Nhar ta’ Sibt Maria tghin lil mama fid-dar u huha jghin lill-papa’ fil-garaxx.

When is the stereotyped mentality going to change?

]]> By: john https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/03/tintin-in-the-congo-and-corto-maltese/#comment-195701 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:43:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=17708#comment-195701 Currently doing the rounds in England:

The Americans have asked if they can use the Queen on their new $25 note. The UK has said OK, as long as we can put their President back on our marmalade jars.

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