All this and rabbit stew

If it were not for the chapter and the discussions in class about the comics and the history behind the comic strips, I would have been kind of shocked to see the cartoons, and the way different races were depicted.

I reviewed the “All this and rabbit stew” which was full of stereotypes, and racist depictions.  The first obvious one is the depiction of the black hunter at the beginning, who Bugs Bunny refers to as “Doc”.  The head was not shaped correctly and other facial features not even.  Even when the hunter laughed they made him sound like an ape, and when he spoke, he sounded very uneducated.

Not only was the physical depiction full of racial statements, but the intellect and how smart the hunter was portrayed was very racist as well.  It appeared that Bugs was the superior being when it came to intellect, even though the hunter had a gun.

Throughout the cartoon, bugs was in the most part in control, leading the hunter to fall off a cliff, chase a bear, or even chase Bugs in the wrong direction.  The cartoonists even had a sucker pop up on the screen when the hunter did something unintelligent, or fell for Bugs’ tricks.  It really played a roll of depicting the intellectual capacity of the black hunter.

In the end when Bugs is cornered he presents dice, in which the two start to gamble, the hunter ends up losing everything, his gun and the cloths he is wearing to bugs.  I think it is a way of the cartoon racially stating the intellectual capacity of the hunter.