Racist chocolate

Yes, young people do love hip hop culture in Japan, but that doesn't mean they can't enjoy a little racist chocolate while they're at it, right? This Mexican chocolate bar (sold at a toy store in Tokyo) features milk chocolate covered peanuts ("conguitos", if you will) enveloped in a bar of white chocolate. Unable to assimilate, the conguitos maintain their dark color even in the mass of whiteness. To be fair, most Japanese are not aware of the minstrel shows complete with blackface performers with the pitch black skin and the exaggerated lips that later turned into the all-out offensive ads for watermelon and pancake syrup.

Japanese obviously don't understand the history behind blackface (at least I hope not), but that doesn't mean they're immune from controversy. One of the once wildly popular Pokémon characters was clad in blackface until they were forced to change it to "purpleface" in response to criticism from some African Americans. Jynx, complete with big lips and huge boobies, seduces with a special hip sway. Her very special Pokémon episode does not air in the U.S. or U.K. and she has been cut out of some other episodes airing in English speaking countries. Poor Jynx.