led by Los Angeles Lakers legend Lebron James, in lieu of Jordan who retired from basketball for the final time in 2003.Critics have called out the classic cartoon character, a bilingual mouse from Mexico who wears a sombrero and speaks in a thick accent, for playing into stereotypes about Latin Americans.A New York Times piece by opinion writer Charles Blow last week discussed how racially insensitive cartoons of yore have endured today — tied to news that a number of Dr.
Seuss’ books would be preemptively pulled from shelves and production over what some may call problematic subject matter.Recalling the first cartoons he remembers seeing, he mentions Speedy Gonzales, “whose friends helped popularize the corrosive stereotype of the drunk.
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