1st of all I have to admit that I love Walter Lantz's cartunes which I used to watch them in my childhood, I also love Lantz and his funny and premiere ideas.
But I really hated this cartune, it shows a strong racist attitudes towards the black people .. It shows them as a bunch of lazy, half and slow-wits, and ugly creatures, A really negative and naive fun making of them.
The story in brief is that a small dirty town in the south of the states called "Lazy Town" has all its inhabitants of black people in a soo lazy and sleepy state, of course, the black people of the town are shown in ugly forms as if they are not humans at all and similar to dirty monkeys .. The train stops in this town for an hour rest for dinner, A gorgeous white girl goes down from the train and as the passed into the "Lazy town", as if a magical effect - obviously she magic and charm of her white skin!! - made all the people of the town active and awake, The girl went to a traditional black maid and asked her if it is possible to wash her clothes, the maid looked not understanding and replied in an awful manly huskily voice that she don't know what does the lady mean. Here the girl stated to sing and to show her what does she want. All the village started to sing with the girl and walk after her .. all the village became happy and singing until the girl went back to the train ..
Of course - in our mean time - this is shameful and unacceptable to introduce such cartoon. which makes gaps and cracks between the whites and blacks in any nation. but this was a normal attitude especially in the United states at that time (The 40's of the 20th century) which was still the age of European colonies and the imperialistic greed of the white man. the age of the big shameful European lie called "The white man burden", the age of slavery and the division between people according to their colors, nations and religions, it's funny that the United states ignores these facts but the fact as it's historically known: The united states was the most rough country in dealing with the blacks, this shameful attitude of the whites in America and the government itself continued until the 70th of the 20th century, while there was no such attitudes in the middle east or Asia. really it's funny to know that the legendary heavy weight boxer Mohamed Ali clay (Cassius Marcellus Clay) has thrown his gold medal which he had achieved in the Olympics in Rome 1960 after as a yelling of the racist attitudes in USA, This is Mohamed Ali the champion of the American nation, what about the normal blacks .. really it's not possible to think how much pain and sorrows they faced in USA !!
Nowadays, Thanks god, we don't have such racist attitudes - at least toward the black people - the racism was still running by the Eurepean government in South Africa until very recently and is still running till now in some countries like Israel ..
- anymore This hard criticism doesn't mean that Walter Lantz is bad, he's still one of the greatest premiere cartoon producers in all times. but it was the common idea of his era to make fun of the blacks. yellows and reds.
I really hope that as the racist attitude toward the blacks has stopped, all other types of racist in our modern era of freedom to stop especially from the governments of USA and Europe *** Lo'ay
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