I remember when I was a kid-on uhf channels-hell-even on affiliates of the Big 3!- these cartoons played every day before and after school-while Detroit was burning-these were airing for the children of the people fighting in the streets.
Though I never really found the Little Rascals racist. Sure-Buckwheats hair stood up when he was scared-but so did Moe Howards! It was slapstick. The kids in the Rascals always treated Stymie and Buckwheat as equals. In fact-most of the episodes which Stymie appeared in,he was usually a leader-not a follower. But the cartoons are propaganda that Hitler would have been proud of. This country denounced Hitler-even while we still promoted racism. Hitler based his 'Final Solution' on what we-the good ole USA-already succsesfully did with the American Indians. Put them in camps and kill them.