For decades, he says, re-releases of shows from the 1930s and 1940s removed or altered all racist content. To Jason Sperb, a lecturer at Northwestern University’s department of radio, television and film, Amazon’s warning label makes sense – and represents progress. The "Tom and Jerry" television cartoon, nearly 75 years old, has faced criticism for its use of blackface and its depiction of Mammy Two Shoes, a black maid whose face is never seen. This warning is the exact warning that appeared on the original Warner Brothers DVDs, so may not reflect a new Amazon policy. A screenshot circulating online shows the warning sentence before viewers of the online service purchase the complete second volume of the series. Amazon Prime is warning its viewers that the 1940 cartoon “Tom and Jerry” has “ethnic and racial prejudices that…were wrong then and are wrong today.”
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