Tom and Jerry this film is a lot of children's memories, is now almost thirty years old people also know the classic clips, Jerry and Tom accompanied us through a happy childhood, which can be said to be a good cartoon made by Americans, until now has been the best choice recommended for children, but I don't know if you have noticed some of the racial discrimination in it.
From the beginning of this film is the wife of two shoes, her voice is loud, her figure is big, her temper is also extremely grumpy, she has always been called "Mrs. Two Shoes" by the audience, because her face has not been shown in the whole TV, but when she cleans and teaches Tom, she has her arm always exposed in front of the camera, and her black arm is black at a glance, and we only know funny at that age but don't know that this is the American satire of black people.
For black people, black is born, this is the fact that they can't change, Martin Luther once spoke I have a dream is to say the dream of black people, he is hoping that black people will not be because of the discrimination of others to belittle themselves, hope that they can have a dream to achieve, this speech is exciting, black people are encouraged, but Martin Luther was assassinated because of this behavior so that many people in the United States government are not accustomed to it. The truth behind this is really frustrating, and they are rogue aren't they?
Not only because of this plot, there are many plots that are mocking black people, there is an episode where Tom falls in love with a white cat, the beautiful and noble she Tom is encounterable and unattainable, at this time Jerry is next to him is trying to make Tom out of the foreign appearance so funny, but Tom catches him at once. In order to please the white cat, he began to smoke a cigar and blow it on Jerry's face, turning into blackface and being forced to dance, which was naked ridicule and discrimination against black people. This shows how much Americans hated black people at that time, and even in the cartoons they had to laugh at them and belittle them.
There are many similar plots like this, Jerry was once also brought with sunflower-like petals, this face is dark and black, the small lips are made into sexy thick lips, think about it is the original black look, the African aborigines are such an image, so the American ridicule of black people is still a lot in this play. And in one episode Tom was scolded by the two shoe wives for being a cat bloody head, and was thrown out of the house, so Tom smeared his face black, and made a grimace to deal with the hostess, but in the American film, the wives of the two shoes did not resist, they really deteriorated the black image and weakened the character image.
But in 2014, Tom and Jerry added some text to the opening credits, saying that the short film content may contain some racial prejudice that was commonplace in American society in the past, and it was wrong then or now. Although such a passage will not change the plot, it should let all viewers know that it is wrong to discriminate against black races, and that we should respect everyone at any time and should not have the psychology of the American past.