The Real Betty Boop Was a Black Woman Before She Was Whitewashed!
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PBS has confirmed that Betty Boop, the popular cartoon character introduced to the world by cartoonist Max Fleischer in 1930, was actual
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Betty boop Painting by Brian Brown - Fine Art America
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jnitaman - PBS has confirmed that Betty Boop, the popular cartoon character introduced to the world by cartoonist Max Fleischer in 1930, was actually inspired by a real-life African American jazz singer
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What's with the sudden trend of saying Betty boop was based on a black woman? She was based on the singer Helen Kane. It takes two seconds to look it up and
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