Representation in Adult Animation

I was watching another episode of South Park the other day and right after that I watched a Family Guy episode. In both episodes, at some point in them, they joked around with their one black character by using stereotypical and racist jokes. In the South Park episode Token, a little black boy, joins a band that Cartman creates even though he says he can't play bass guitar. And Cartman keeps telling Token that he can because he's black. Token then plays a smooth bass line and says, "god damnit."

In the Family Guy episode, Brain was driving a cab car and he's about to pull over to pick up Cleveland, but remembers something he forgot and drives past him and it pisses Cleveland off as he thinks he didn't get picked up because he was black. These are jokes that adults can easily understand but some kids cannot. And then, if you watch a movie like Shrek 2 adults understand that the "ass" is voiced by Eddie Murphy and once the small, dark colored donkey drinks 'happily ever after potion,' he turns into a white stallion. This is something kids don't consciously pick up on, but it does set up a 'white at the top' culture.

I think that's more dangerous than adult animations jokes like the examples I gave from South Park and Family Guy, because it represents 'cultural norm' in its hyper-realism.