VIDEO: RACIST TV CHARACTER RETURNS TO SCREENS IN PERU

May 27, 2011

Via The Voice Online A RACIALLY offensive comedy character is to return to TV screens despite protests. After a brief suspension, popular Peruvian television station, Frecuencia Latina, has brought back controversial comedy character ‘El Negro Mama’ despite being attacked for being a racist caricature of a black man. The channel was pressured to take the character off the airwaves after legal threats from African-Peruvian civil rights campaigning group, Lundu, who rallied to get the character, played by Peruvian comedian, Jorge Benavides, taken […]