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

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

 
 

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