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Internet giant, Amazon, has put warning on some of 'Tom and Jerry' cartoons it offers to its customers. Visitors who want to buy or download series 'Tom and Jerry: Complete Second Volume' get warning that cartoons contain scenes that are racist. The warning says: "Tom and Jerry shorts may [show] some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society." It added that scenes were wrong when cartoons were made 70 years ago, and are still wrong today. People say character of black maid in the cartoon series is racist. Some of the cartoons were edited in 1960s because of worries about racism.

Tom and Jerry were created in 1940 by cartoonists William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The show is about lives of Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse, who live in same house and are big rivals. Hanna and Barbera produced 114 Tom and Jerry cartoons from 1940 to 1957. The cartoons won Oscar for best Animated Short Film seven times. The shows have become one of most popular cartoons in animation history. They are put on children's TV every day in many countries. Animation expert Steve Abrahart said quality of animation in early Tom and Jerry cartoons was "superb". Many people posted on Twitter to say it was "madness" for Amazon to put warning on the cartoons.