"All This and Rabbit Stew"

I watched all of the cartoons posted in Week 10's folder and was stuck between the banned Betty Boop cartoon, "Making Stars", and the Bugs Bunny cartoon, "All This and Rabbit Stew".  I have decided to use the Bugs Bunny cartoon because it is more relevant and I enjoyed it more than the Betty Boop episode.  This cartoon had strong manifestations of the white idea of black racial identity.
The black hunter in this cartoon is portrayed as lazy in the beginning of the episode.  He is dragging his feet and his speech is slightly slurred as if to portray his inability to speak clearly.  Later the cartoon's theme changes to represent the stereotype of black ignorance when Bugs Bunny first misdirects him purposefully by literally pointing him in the wrong direction.  The poor trickee, the hunter, is then shown as a "sucker" to further cement his portrayed ignorance.  Later Bugs Bunny tricks him while running away by taking the same route over and over again, through a hollow log, then rotating the log so that the end point off a cliff.  Bugs Bunny does this several times until the point that the hunter actually does fall.  The episode ends with Bugs Bunny tricking him into a dice game and taking all of his possessions.
I beleive that there is some love in these cartoons due to the fact that they poke fun at all groups of individuals.  I would definetely agree with Check Jones assertion that, "You must love what you caricature."  The assertion of the racial descriptions in cartoons as being crude stereotypes of racist origins, while true to some extent, no longer holds as much validity as it did in the past.  The characters were just designed to be amusing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P5jyyxCgIo