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Are the Conguitos racist? More than 3,330 people have signed in recent days a petition for the Spanish group LACASA to stop marketing their chocolate balls with an illustration "with racist characteristics ". The person who demanded its deletion maintains that this image makes these bags "a stigmatizing product for the black population".

The request is made to denounce "how attached this cultural racism is to our DNA." It arises after a few weeks of intense social debate and violent street protests in the United States over the death of the black citizen George Floyd suffocated for minutes by the knee of a policeman. A highly criticized episode across the planet with the motto #BlackLivesMatte r (black lives matter).

A variant of that label, #ConguitosLivesMatter , has been the flag to which they have been hooked this Friday who in Spain consider that asking for the withdrawal or modification of the popular brand means going too far. The answers have been tinged with humor.

A real or anecdotal controversy? Some public figures have taken sides ... with an image.

Others have answered directly.

Although above all irony has predominated.

Precisely, a joke about the similarity between his teammate Mendy and the Conguitos cost soccer player Bernardo Silva a penalty . This Friday, the new battle has served to recover old announcements.

As there is no truce on Twitter, there are already those who remember other incorrect products.

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