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Racist cartoons reveal how blacks were depicted on TV

A handful of racist animations have gone viral that show how blacks were depicted in the 30s and 40s.

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  8. How is this racist? Color, features, hair, the clothes…? Are white, blond-haired individuals with beige slacks a racist depiction? This is a comic. Is Mr.Magoo or Popeye a good depiction of a white person? Maybe, I’ve seen a few like them around.

  11. It’s worth noting that at this point, slavery hadn’t been that long ago.

  13. So, these cartoons show that they are jolly, whimsy and resourceful! I don’t see how that is racist

  16. sad they feel we still act and look like this…. watching it further makes me upsettttt … who the hell did they think they were 🤣🤣🤣 giving us this sad image ..

  20. Shit, blacks aren’t the only ones. Let’s talk about Slowpoke Rodriguez. I’m Mexican and no Mexican I know of and ever known talks like him. Asians were depicted fucked up too.

  24. It’s only racist because it’s now politically incorrect and offensive. But back then it was seen as “okay” because it wasn’t prejudiced as it is now.

  27. God I should have been born in the 40s I think it’s the best thing ever lol

  28. The whole point of the Warner Bros. animation studio was to present EVERYBODY as a caricature. When Bugs Bunny played golf against a Scotsman, that Scotsman was portrayed as an outrageous caricature of one. The ‘French’ qualities evinced by Pepe le Pew were outrageously caricaturistic. The voices Mel Blanc provided for each character were over-the-top caricatures of what those nationalities actually sound like.

    It’s only because of the tragic history of Slavery in America that the ‘colored’ characters’ caricatures are deemed problematic nowadays. Mel Brooks’ BLAZING SADDLES — a kind of live-action Warner Bros. cartoon — also makes use of caricature in its depictions of both the Black characters AND the White ones — to wit, the racist white guys overseeing the black railroad workers, and Lili Von Schtup’s “Teutonic twat” (as she’s referred to by Hedley Lamarr).

    COAL BLACK AND DE SEBBEN DWARFS, as controversial as it might be, is a tour de force — or, tour de farce — and ranks as one of the absolutely most hilarious cartoons ever made. It’s a parody of SNOW WHITE, but with an “all-black cast” — like how THE WIZ was THE WIZARD OF OZ with an all-black cast — and wasn’t made to be ANTI-black, the way the wartime cartoons depicted the Enemy — the ‘Japs’ and the ‘Krauts’ — as outrageous stereotypes. The “Evil Queen” isn’t evil because of her race: she’s ‘evil’ because she’s a rich person who hoards items which ordinary people couldn’t acquire due to war-time scarcity — like the TIRES she’s depicted as having, obviously not needing all of them for her own use. And all the ‘good guys’ in the cartoon — the Dwarfs — are black, too . . . because it’s an all-black cast. Stereotypically depicted, true, but so were ALL characters in the Looney Tunes repertoire.

  31. That is SUPER FUCKED. That was how they portrayed black people back in the early 30’s-50’s in cartoons. You can even see it if you watch old deleted looney tunes. Just type in black face looney tunes. Mf doom before he was called that, had a group with his brother where they meme’ed the black face characters and put them hung on their album cover to kinda throw back against the normal use of it back in the day. It’s so funny how ignorant people are these days.

  32. Do people not know history? Yes it’s incredibly racist, but it was made in the 30’s

  35. I mean they funny as fuck for all the actual jokes in there, but that definitely was a bit over the top on the depiction

  37. if this racist, then Elmer is also racist, dont they not show him as a fool??, people get over it, its a cartoon, laugh and enjoy

  44. anyone who gets offended by a cartoon needs to have their head examined.

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