Walter Lantz was a major league asshole and a huge racist.
So fuck him. I refuse to watch his cartoons. They suck anyway.
Do you have any more info on that? If the Wikipedia article is to be believed, it sounds like he didn't think it would be offensive and tried to correct his behavior after universal announced that it would be pulled due to being offensive. It sounds like McEvoy was the real PoS for attempting to justify the cartoon to an NAACP representative.
Agreed, hes not exactly clean from wrongdoing but based on the wiki i dont think he was hatefull.
The controversy was a shock to Walter Lantz, who prided himself on avoiding problems with the censors. He repeatedly stated that his cartoons were never meant to offend anyone. After the 1949 decision, Lantz made a major effort to exclude any offensive caricatures of racial or ethnic groups in his cartoons. He also promised that Scrub Me Mama would never be distributed on television; however, according to eyewitness accounts, the short was broadcast on TV during the 1950s and continued to be seen as late as the 1980s.
We are going to need a proper conversation about this. People can act a certain way without completly being that way. All racist behavior is bad but I personally draw a line at do they actually carry hate or disdain. Some people are just ignorant and others nondiscriminatory don’t care about anyone thats not themselves which ain’t good either but still not Fascist.
Ah the racist playbook. Even in the 1940s.
The "Nobody complained to me!" Method
On October 29, 1948, a representative of Universal wrote to the NAACP. He pointed out that none of the company's theaters had received complaints concerning the film.
The "If this passes, you'll never work again!" method
McEvoy offered to let the NAACP contact the West Coast offices of the company, but he warned that in consequence for taking action, "removeds" would be prevented from getting work in the industry.
The "It was just a joke!" Method
McEvoy pointed out that caricatures of Negroes, Jews, Germans, and Irish used to all be top entertainment.
He did other racist cartoons.
I don't want to link to them.
One is called Just Spooks.
There is absolutely no way, if you watch that cartoon, that you would not think black people would be offended by it. Again, I don't want to link to it, but it's available to watch on the Internet if you're curious. His claim of innocence was just a lie.
Edit: To whomever downvoted me- Scrub Me Mama With a Boogie Beat takes place in an all-black town called Lazytown where everyone is big-lipped, lazy and stupid but addicted to jazz. They also love eating watermelon. Do you really think Walter Lantz wasn't a racist piece of shit?
The cartoon, you can watch it from the page, is absolutely horrifying. We all know that that kind of stuff existed, but i was still unprepared for how insane it is
You weren't joking. Imagine the animators working on frame after frame of that and being okay with it...
Holy shit. I had to turn it off. WTF.
Woody woodpecker was chaos incarnate.
I'm glad to see the wiki page is as well.
does this have any connection to David Lynch and his boys?
king activities.
