just wanna say this before the inevitable Twitter argument happens, to prove that I know this already and thus am smarter than everybody (
/sneed), Betty Boop was inspired by Baby Esther (Esther Jones) who was black.
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She even did that "boo-boop-a-doop" thing. Betty was a cartoon dog and Bimbo's girlfriend (Bimbo, the Fleischer dog) and she was a reference to Baby Esther. Eventually Betty's ears became earrings, she got way more popular than Bimbo, and became her own thing. So
TECHNICALLY one could argue that Betty Boop has always been black, or least inspired by black people, so this is a "return to form" or whatever, but to that I say this is what Betty Boop looked like the first time she was in color:
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another ginger being blackwashed