[Neil Jones]

I didn't know about the "mammy" character being racist either I'm smiling now remembering her shouting "Thomas".

WB's approach is spot on. Its an admission that "things were different back then"

Many cartoons of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s wil have used racial stereotyping. Its definitely not unique to Tom & Jerry (that being said, Tom & Jerry is probably one of the most violent cartoons that airs on children's TV these days, and its always amazing to note that any complaints about it are about everything else but the violence itself). Mammy was revoiced years later twice over, so sometimes its luck of the draw who you get doing the voiceover.

I dare say if the BBC had iPlayer rights to it, they'd hack it to shreds to the point where its not even worth having.