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The Internet giant, Amazon, has a warning on some of the 'Tom and Jerry' cartoons it to its customers. Visitors who want to buy or the series 'Tom and Jerry: The Complete Second Volume' a warning that the cartoons scenes that are racist. The warning says: "Tom and Jerry shorts may [show] some ethnic and racial prejudices that once commonplace in American society." It added that the scenes wrong when the cartoons made 70 years ago, and are still wrong today. People say the character of the black maid in the cartoon series racist. Some of the cartoons were in the 1960s because of worries about racism.

Tom and Jerry were in 1940 by cartoonists William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The show is about the lives of Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse, who in the same house and are big rivals. Hanna and Barbera 114 Tom and Jerry cartoons from 1940 to 1957. The cartoons the Oscar for the best Animated Short Film seven times. The shows have one of the most popular cartoons in animation history. They are on children's TV every day in many countries. Animation expert Steve Abrahart the quality of animation in the early Tom and Jerry cartoons "superb". Many people on Twitter to say it was "madness" for Amazon to a warning on the cartoons.

 
 

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