The Jynx issue is best described by Bulbapedia,

"Carole Boston Weatherford, a cultural critic, claimed that a Pok

Just because its banned in America, doesn't mean its banned in other countries. They've banned Jynx because of the "African American stereotype" thing. I don't think that site should have said "English speaking" countries, because I'm not sure if its banned in ALL english speaking countries.

I hate politically correct. Good thing I got to see those episodes (the English dubs from UK)...

But then again there are people that can't take light of a politically incorrect situation. The comic troubles over there East of the Atlantic, for example.

Jynx is politically correct for the USA, but it is just not used there as people still do not approve of the pokemon because of the time when it wasn't purple, that's from what i can gather

I never said i had a source i said that was my opinion on the matter.

Jynx was made to poke fun at a group of Japanese youth that had a look of very very very dark skin and very very very light hair. There were like some kind of school cliche that became a trendy thing to do. THAT is where the idea for Jynx came from.

Political Correctness is just a form of controlling freedom of speech.

Prior to the modern Jynx design introduced more recently, Jynx originally had pure-black flesh.

This original design bore a striking, but possibly coincidental, resemblance to entertainers in blackface. A strong case can be made for Jynx being a parody of or homage to the Japanese Ganguro and Yamanba fashion trends, which were extremely popular when Pok

There's a difference in the appearance between Jynx and the Ganguro fashion trend of the mid-1990's... try doing a Google Image Search and you can clearly tell the difference between the two. Ganguro girls don't have completely black faces and they lack the similarities Jynx had with blackface cartoons, which were racially offensive. Blackface characters had jet-black skin and rather large lips... oh, what about Jynxie's appearance was modified after Mrs. Weatherford's complaints? Her black skin was recolored purple, and her lips were resized.

Jynx's original design. | Some examples of Ganguro girls. | Some examples of blackface.
Hmm... which one does the original Jynx design more obviously resemble?

Was Jynx intentionally made to look like blackface? A good question, but either way, it offended Mrs. Weatherford, and she responded. I think the episodes will eventually air; they've been dubbed, haved aired on British TV, and Kids WB have paid to get the rights to the episodes. There's also a giant plot hole in the American dub's plot now, because May never wins her last Contest. Kids WB will just be acting stupid and wasting their money if they leave the episodes unaired. I'm not African American, and I thought Mrs. Weatherford was having a bad drug trip when I originally read her article, but she makes valid points in comparing Jynx/Mr. Popo to blackface.