Of Course Tom And Jerry Was Racist. The Question Is What to Do About That.

Of Course Tom And Jerry Was Racist. The Question Is What to Do About That.
A poster for Joseph Barbera and William Hanna's 1950 cartoon 'The Framed Cat'. (Photo by Movie Poster Image Art/Getty Images)
A poster for Joseph Barbera and William Hanna's 1950 cartoon 'The Framed Cat'. (Photo by Movie Poster Image Art/Getty Images)

Is that cartoon cat racist? Amazon Prime and iTunes now feature a warning for Tom and Jerry cartoons from the 1940s and 1950s, which notes that they “may depict ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society.”

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