The Black Smurf Controversy…
Research wise, The Black Smurfs (original French title Les Schtroumpfs Noirs) is the first collection of the original French-language Smurfs comic series created by Belgian artist Peyo, first published in 1963. In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon made for NBC’s Saturday Morning Cartoon line-up, the black Smurfs were changed to purple one’s in order to soften any racist connotation. “Black, Angry, Smurfs who had a limited vocabulary who jumped around biting the azz’s of other smurfs.” It is the concept of Blacks being uncivilized and crabs in a barrel. So tre’ racist. Amazingly, many still see blacks that way. What do you think?
3 Responses to “The Black Smurf Controversy…”
6-2-2009
sound more like zombies to me.
6-2-2009
It kinda does…That’s a another article!!!
6-22-2010
Well, I am french. As most of the french kid I read all the schtroumpf comic, as well as “tintin” and “asterix”. I especially like the “black smurf” story, and it never ever came to my mind that the black smurf could be a symbol of black people !!? .. until I recently read a article in a french newspaper. That kind pf controversies sounds quite talibanistic to me.
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