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Spanish postal service condemned over skin-coloured Equality Stamps

“A campaign that outrages those it claims to defend is always a mistake.”

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-05-28 14:30
in World News
(Correos via AP)

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Spain’s postal service is facing a backlash over an attempt to highlight racial inequality.

State-owned Correos Espana this week issued a set of four stamps in different skin-coloured tones – the darker the stamp, the lower the price.

The lightest colour costs 1.60 euros (£1.37), and the darkest is 0.70 euros (60p).

The postal service calls them Equality Stamps and introduced them on the anniversary of George Floyd being killed by a police officer in Minneapolis.

It said the stamps “reflect an unfair and painful reality that shouldn’t be allowed” and that every letter or parcel sent with them would “send a message against racial inequality”.

The campaign was launched during European Diversity Month in collaboration with Spain’s national SOS Racism Federation, a non-profit group, and featured a 60-second video with Spanish hip-hop star and activist El Chojin.

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But while the goal of Correos Espana was to “shine a light on racial inequality and promote diversity, inclusion and equal rights”, critics have accused the company of having a tin ear for racial issues and misreading the sentiment of black people in Spain.

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Antumi Toasije, a historian who heads the government’s Council for the Elimination of Racial or Ethnic Discrimination, urged the postal service to stop selling the stamps, tweeting: “A campaign that outrages those it claims to defend is always a mistake.”

The postal service’s initiative has divided Spanish anti-racism activists. While the national SOS Racism Federation backed it, the organisation’s Madrid section poured scorn on the effort.

SOS Racismo Madrid said the campaign helps conceal the structural nature of racism and perpetuates the notion of black inferiority.

It added that the blunder proved the need for more racially aware people in decision-making positions at companies.

This is not the first time the Spanish postal service has sought to make a statement on social issues. Last June, to coincide with LGBT Pride Month, it issued a special stamp and painted its delivery vans and mail boxes in rainbow colours.

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