The Minstrel ShowPatrice Lumumba November 2015, Pepino 38,5 x 34 x cm Plastic figure i Conguitos (little Congolese) is a Spanish brand of chocolate covered peanuts. The toy is an official Conguito product. A current promotion of the company offers a possibility to personalize the text the figure is holding. I orderer them with the names of the most famous defenders of the civil rights of African and Afro-American people. The minstrel show was an American form of entertainment developed in the 19th century of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the U.S. Civil War, by black people. Minstrel shows lampooned black people as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious and happy-go-lucky. Patrice Lumumba was a Congolese independence leader and the first democratically elected leader of the Congo. As founder and leader of the mainstream Mouvement National Congolais (MNC) party, Lumumba played an important role in campaigning for independence from Belgium. Tags: Conguitos, racism, Spain 2 / 7