Puppet show in Pointe Claire in the news
A puppet show on the schedule of the Pointe Claire kids’ library is in the news because one of the puppets is a crude caricature of a Black person. Joel DeBellefeuille of the Coalition Rouge is in La Presse with strong words against the show.
Beaconsfield has already cancelled the performance planned there.
The irony is that the puppeteer who created L’incroyable secret de Barbe Noire is Franck Sylvestre, originally from Martinique, who’s Black himself.
qatzelok 13:31 on 2023-02-25 Permalink
The Simpsons characters were also very uncomplimentary to working class people, and their faces and hands were extremely distorted and non-attractive. Homer Simpson (like Fred Flinstone) was depicted as being stupid and ideological.
Is any fictional representation okay? They’re always distorted.
Ephraim 16:02 on 2023-02-25 Permalink
Meanwhile, Desjardins ads in French has no diversity at all, unless you count sticking a token PoC in the background. They have more 2SLGBTQIA+ representation then PoC. But so do most ads in French. BMO, which has a black rep in English has a blonde in French. If ads are a mirror of society, it’s very ethnocentric