Why are there no black people in the Jetsons? Many people have wondered this and the answer may lie in the time the show was written. The Jetsons was written in the early 1960's, and it is about a postwar family living the American Dream. The only difference was that they were placed in the future. The fact that there are no black people in it turns me to wonder who the American Dream was meant for. The Jetsons is an American work of culture that promotes the stereotype that black people do not deserve their freedom. Anywhere you look in the show, you will not find a face of color. Did the writers believe the American Dream was only for whites? There used to be minstrel shows where a white man will dress in black face and characters like Jim Crow were created. Jim Crow is a slave who is happy to be a slave. White people believed that slaves did not deserve their freedom because they would not know what to do with themselves, so they should be happy that the white man has given them a home even though they are enslaved. The writers of the Jetsons imagined a postwar world where people lived out the American Dream and seemed to forget about the black people. Or possibly the Jetsons is the grand stage for the world's largest minstrel show. And the foolish characters in the show are the reverse roll of a black man in a white man's face, obviously not making it through appearing as a normal man. The Jetsons may be a modernized version of the first cartoons that discriminated against black people all those years ago.
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