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		</div><p>Spain’s postal service is facing a backlash over an attempt to highlight racial inequality.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The lightest colour costs 1.60 euros (£1.37), and the darkest is 0.70 euros (60p).</p>
<p>The postal service calls them Equality Stamps and introduced them on the anniversary of George Floyd being killed by a police officer in Minneapolis.</p>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>SOS Racismo Madrid said the campaign helps conceal the structural nature of racism and perpetuates the notion of black inferiority.</p>
<p>It added that the blunder proved the need for more racially aware people in decision-making positions at companies.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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