Lee Hadden writes:
\”Many of the cartoons
produced before 1950 used and satirized racial and
ethnic stereotypes. In an article in Friday\’s Wall Street
Journal, May 4,
2001, first page, \”Bunny in Blackface: Why Cartoon
Network Won\’t Run 12 Bugs
Pix: Its Plans for a June Retrospective Sparked
Concerns Over Taste; Two
Agendas Inside AOL.\”
Some of the Bugs Bunny cartoons produced during
World War II showed
racial and ethnic stereotypes against the Japanese and
Germans. Other Bugs
Bunny cartoons showed racial stereotypes and
demeaning situations that are
offensive to today\’s sensibilities.
The owners of the original Bugs Bunny cartoons did
not want these
offensive cartoons shown, even for historical
representations and
retrospective reviews. The control over the cartoons is
slipping, as is the
censorship efforts to prevent their being seen.
Read more about it in the Wall Street Journal.\”
You should be able to see some of them Here at Throttlebox.com
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