Black Cartoon Week
November 11th, 2006
Friday’s film, “Inky and the Minah Bird,” has, along with all the other Inky cartoons, been kept under lock and key and off television airwaves for years. Since our hero is a black character designed and drawn by mid twentieth century white artists, he’s been lumped together with other undesirable stereotypes (Bosko, Jasper, Sambo, et al) and more or less ignored by the mainstream purveyors of animated high jinx.
Next week we will devote five whole days to specifically examine banned shorts featuring African American characters — starting Monday it’s Black Cartoon Week at ReFrederator !
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