They have names like “Jungle Jitters,” “Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarves,” and “All This and Rabbit Stew (see left),” and feature cartoon images of blacks that would get an animator at the Disney Channel fired before you could say “Sambo” if he or she tried to produce them now. But these Warner Bros. shorts were made in the 30s and 40s and a part of a group of cartoons dubbed the Censored 11. None of us are supposed to be able to see them (hence, the Censored 11). Yet, many of them can be found on YouTube. What gives?

According to the New York Times, reps from Warner Bros. are sending out cease and desists as fast as they can, but it’s really hard to keep a video off of the internet once it’s already gone up. Does it matter, though? How harmful are these old, racist images in a modern world?

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