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For those who do not know Mr. Popo is a minor character in the anime show Dragon Ball Z. On the show, he is a gene, a friend to the Z fighters, and is the servant to Kami the guardian of Earth. Sounds innocent enough, but the truth is that Mr. Popo is just a modern day minstrel, a coon, and a sambo or to put it plainly a plain racist images and I am shocked to see him on the air. Now I know some of you reading this may think I am over reacting and would say that this is only a cartoon character or that Mr. Popo is not really Black (well not racially any way). To them I say your right in the fact that it is just a cartoon show, but the truth is that this is an image that gets in grained into the children that watched the show and effects what they think of themselves and other people. Just as the same types of images effect people years ago, when it was thought to be ok and the norm to put them in public. Therefore, you end up having little Black children thinking that they are ugly, inferior and less then human and little White kids thinking that they are better then the Black kids. In addition, to those who say the character is not really supposed to be Negroid but a genie, I say your right in the fact that popo is a genie and doesn’t really look like a real Black person, but he does look like the many racist images that are supposed to be Black people.
