Popular Quebec Internet video maker in trouble with anti-racism group
MONTREAL (CP) - A popular Quebec Internet video is in a boiling pot over a depiction of an African cannibal making stew with a couple of Quebec tourists.
Quebec Pluriel, a group that encourages the integration of immigrants in the province, is calling on the producers of Tetes-a-Claques to pull the short animated clip off the web.
The group also wants sponsor Bell Canada to apologize.
Quebec Pluriel said the video is insulting, degrading and irresponsible.
Michel Beaudet, the producer of the hit Internet video site, told Le Journal de Montreal the controversy over the humour is "ridiculous and sad."
The video which has received nearly three million hits shows a black man with a huge bottom lip and the speech pattern of a child trying to make stew with two white people.
The white woman calls the black man Kunta Kinte, referring to the black slave whose life was chronicled in Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
The woman eventually ruins the man's stew by peeing in it.
Tetes a claques, which roughly translates as "a face for slapping,"
features a stable of regular clay characters in often ridiculous situations.
