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Lil Black Sambo (1935)
Jasper in a Jam (1946)
Scrub me Mamma with a Boggie Beat (1941)
Jungle Jitters (1938)
Uncle Tom and Little Eva (1932)
Any Bonds Today? (1942) Starring Bugs Bunny
I doubt you'll see these on the Cartoon Network anytime soon.
A possible collector's item given all the correctness going on today?
In the 1980's when my son was little - as a present he received a VHS tape of Superman cartoons from the 1940's.
One cartoon showed Japanese spies trying to sabotage a military plant - the Japanese were depicted as short, buck teeth, round glasses and yellow - speaking pidgin English. They were the enemy.
When I was in first grade, around 1953, we watched several cartoons (more of a slide show rather than a movie). One of those was Little Black Sambo. It was eventually changed to Little Brave Sambo, and after that just went away I suppose. There was even a restaurant chain originating in Santa Barbara, California, named Sambos that was somewhat associated with Little Black Sambo.
There were quite a few cartoons that are considered racist nowadays, among them Brer Rabbit. Many would probably consider the Jack Benney show racist.
Lil Black Sambo (1935)
Jasper in a Jam (1946)
Scrub me Mamma with a Boggie Beat (1941)
Jungle Jitters (1938)
Uncle Tom and Little Eva (1932)
Any Bonds Today? (1942) Starring Bugs Bunny
Inky and the Minah Bird is pretty racist
So are
Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs
Goldilocks and the Jivin Bears
Hittin the Trail for Hallelujah land
TinPan AlleyCats
Uncle Toms Bungalow
The Isle of Pingo Pongo
Clean Pastures
Bugs Bunny All this and Rabbit Stew
Dough for the Dodo (the intro where Porky Pig flies into Africa)
When my brother and I were about 7 or 8 years old we would brush our teeth together while looking at ourselves in the mirror. Once we had sufficiently worked up a frothy lather of white toothpaste around our mouths we would look at each other and sing, "I wish I was in Dixie," and laugh. That's how ubiquitous the minstrel images were on cartoons. Whenever a character had their face blackened by black soot or smoke they would look in the camera and sing, "I wish I was in Dixie." Once Lulu got her face blackened and said, "My mouth is just'a watering fo sum fried chicken."
Stop laughing.
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