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Disney's early racist cartoon character, Bosco

submitted by zombieater

1 decade 1 year 11 months 3 weeks ago

Circa 1937. In the 1930's, Bosco and Honey were more popular than Mickey Mouse. Cartoon was based on minstrel show portrayals of African Americans.

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Wiki says they were Warner Bros cartoons. I'm sure Disney would have done better though.

Interestingly, the animators who drew up Bosco and Honey worked for Disney - Harman and Ising. Perhaps they later sold the rights to Warner Bros?

This cartoon isn't loaded with negative stereotypes,I'd give it a 3 on a 1-10 scale. The kids are dressed in decent clothes and the girl has a farm and raises chickens.The dialect sounds southern United States and not overtly exaggerated though it's probably done by white voice characters. Seen way worse.

They did make the boy steal eggs though and you know in Hollywood theys' always reinforcing that old, "black folks steals eggs" stereotype!!

Moving this video to zombieater's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*dead - killed by Disney?

This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by CrushBug.

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