Brooklyn’s chief librarian has yanked a nearly 80-year-old book from the shelves because it depicts Africans as monkeys.
Tintin Au Congo is the only book in the city library system hidden from public view after a reader complained that it was “racially offensive.”
The popular Belgian children’s work - due to be made into a movie by Steven Spielberg - is locked behind a series of hidden doors on the third floor of Brooklyn’s central library.
“‘Tintin au Congo’ was relocated,” said director Richard Reyes-Gavilan. Library officials across the city said they’ve debated pulling about 25 books and DVDs from city shelves, including “Godless: The Church of Liberalism,” by Ann Coulter, and a Harold Robbins novel, but rejected the requests.
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