Was 'Doug' And Its Central Character Doug Funnie Racist?
From 1991-1994, Doug Funnie and his multicolored friends were Nickelodeon favorites. But while Doug's BFF Skeeter was blue and the school bully Roger Klotz was green, Doug was white.
Jezebel delved into the reasoning behind Doug's skin color, and the answer isn't a great one. Simply put, Nickelodeon was catering to a white audience.
"The others didn't get Nickelodeon," one of Nickelodeon's founders, Gus Hauser, said in "Slimed!: An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age," via Bitch magazine. "Children who couldn't afford cable were getting some children's programming from PBS. Sure, it brings up issues of diversity and income level."
Executive producer Doug Campbell's reasoning wasn't any more satisfactory. "Look, we’re not black people, we’re not Mexican, but we want the cartoon to speak to all groups," Campbell said in "Slimed!" "How do we get past the barrier of ethnicity? And Jim (Jinkins, the show's creator) said, ‘Let’s try coloring them all different colors.'"
The question of Doug's race is something fans have been debating for a while. In 2009, blogger Wolfie G. Nards wrote: "Every supporting character around Doug is some wacky shade except, of course, for Doug Funnie, who is a regular white kid. The main character is white in world full of colorful yet ancillary characters. What does that tell our children? It tells them only the white race is deserving of a spotlight. Only the white race is worthy of being the star of the show. All other skin tones must remain in the background."
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That bastard Charles Schultz...
And forced to live in a tiny little shack on his land 
