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

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