Had a look at the linked pictures. Everyone in them looks like a caricature...

The Blacks. Tintin. The dog. They all look like cartoon caricatures, and they all look typical of such art in thousands and thousands of commonly sold books at that time...in fact right up through the 1950's.

It's not a threat to anyone to put that book on a store shelf, although our ways of depicting Black characters in cartoons and movies have definitely changed greatly in recent times, and for the better.

I have also seen several modern movies in the past 10 or 20 years, movies with no trace of racist sentiment in them, which depicted visiting white people in Asia or Africa being carried in a sedan chair of some kind by the local Asian or African people, while traveling in the hinterlands. Saw one like that about China the other day, the events being set in the 1930s.

So what? That used to really happen. To depict it happening in a past era is culturally and historically accurate. So why would it offend someone to see a depiction of those things that happened in a former time, and were quite ordinary back then?

It is not a recommendation that anything like that be done NOW. It is a view of a reality long past, and as such, it's history. You have to learn about history in order to avoid repeating it, don't you?

What is, however, a real genuine threat right NOW to a great many people, as pdq has pointed out, is the absolutely vicious gangsta rap garbage that is being foisted on a generation of young people via TV and radio. It (much of it) foments violence, race hatred, crime, rape, and hatred of women. It (again, much of it) is blatantly brutal and antisocial. It brutalizes young people of ALL races. It holds up totally corrupt role models in front of them.

Oh, but then you'd have to openly take issue with a "visible minority's" cultural choices, wouldn't you?

Goodness sakes! We can't do that, can we? Someone might accuse us of being "racists", for gosh sakes....and we might be banned forever from the further company of all decent liberals and conservatives in today's zero tolerance for "racism" society. (extreme sarcasm on my part in this last paragraph)

That's what's going on these days. That is the present climate of fear and the muzzling of people in our society. And it IS racism, in my opinion. It's self-inflicted racism as a matter of fact...although quite unintentionally self-inflicted. It's another case of the road to hell being paved with the very best of intentions.