This cartoon is not politically correct in the "everything is offensive" days when a watermelon in a fruit basket is racist and a statue of Thomas Jefferson represents a "nonverbal code" of intolerance and is offensive to blacks and women.
That does not make my man Speedy less entertaining.
My mind is blown; cartoons within a cartoon. That Mel Blanc was one racist, stereotyping SOB. Naw, he was just funny.
ReplyDeleteJoke 'em if they can't take a.... well, you know.
ReplyDeleteI love Speedy and Pepe Le Pew and all those critters who would be outcasts today. Maybe even a little more because of that.