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

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

 
 

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