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Do you have any more info on that? If the Wikipedia article is to be believed, it sounds like he didn't think it would be offensive and tried to correct his behavior after universal announced that it would be pulled due to being offensive. It sounds like McEvoy was the real PoS for attempting to justify the cartoon to an NAACP representative.
He did other racist cartoons.
I don't want to link to them.
One is called Just Spooks.
There is absolutely no way, if you watch that cartoon, that you would not think black people would be offended by it. Again, I don't want to link to it, but it's available to watch on the Internet if you're curious. His claim of innocence was just a lie.
Edit: To whomever downvoted me- Scrub Me Mama With a Boogie Beat takes place in an all-black town called Lazytown where everyone is big-lipped, lazy and stupid but addicted to jazz. They also love eating watermelon. Do you really think Walter Lantz wasn't a racist piece of shit?
Lazytown‽ RIP to my boy Robbie Rotten, number 1 pirate.
His name be praised