Jump to content

Home

Scoobert "Racist" Doo


Det. Bart Lasiter

Recommended Posts

The classic "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" episode A Night of Fright Is No Delight aired recently on Cartoon Network and I was APPALLED by how blatantly racist it was. In the first case, the character of "Colonel Sanders", whom Scooby had saved several years earlier from a swamp was an avid collector of Civil War memorabilia and (seemingly) a "fan" of the Civil War and the Confederates in particular. However, he was anything but vilified for his beliefs, instead his lawyers (Mr. Creeps and Mr. Crawls) were turned into the so-called "bad guys" -- a clear shot at the Jewish community. Joseph Barbera's and William Hanna's hate knew no bounds however, so they made this "Night of Hate" even less of a "Delight". The "ghosts" in this episode were clearly meant to portray the spirits of African-American slaves that had (presumably) died while enslaved by Colonel Sanders' forefathers. However, the designs of these "ghosts" were clearly based on the racist theater makeup style known as "blackface", which was meant to portray certain African-American stereotypes. Pictured here is one of the so-called "phantoms":

 

rwjfq9.jpg

 

 

After being confronted with evidence this damning, I certainly hope you will all revise your views on this "wonder pup".

Link to comment
Share on other sites

If Scooby Doo offends you, then I would suggest never watching the "censored" buggs bunny episodes that were released on the DVD collection... alot of which were my favourites.

 

Ill let you make of that last part what you want, but I doubt youll be right. :p As for Scooby Doo itself... it was pandered more for kids... and pot smoking hippies. They arent going to be paying too much attention to stuff like that.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I watched almost nothing but scooby doo and gilligans island from probably kindergarten through 3rd grade, and some how, despite all of the blatant racism that you seem to think damns the series to hell, I have managed to keep myself from joining the KKK and burning all of the african american blue ghosts in my community.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...