Aunt Jemima to remove image from packaging and rename brand

[Smokin Joe]

EXACTLY!!!

But noooo.... to hear men tell it... they're perfect (and perfect angels).  Yeah...

riiiight!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

[Bigun]

@Bigun Thank You for digging that up for me.

No problem @Sighlass I wouldn't do it for just anyone!   

[Smokin Joe]

Yeah something like that.. I can see where folks might claim it to be a caricature, but what ain't a caricature in advertising? I mean, nobody's getting bent out of shape about Cap'n Crunch, right?

Well, are they going to get rid of "Cracker" Jack, too?

[andy58-in-nh]

One would have thought that having a picture of a smiling and happy black woman on a package would have turned any real racists away.

But that was before the Woke Cult bullied people into assuming that they are all guilty and irredeemable, unless they apologize for being the secret racists that they know in their hearts they never have been.

[Cyber Liberty]

"Aunt" and "Uncle" were terms of respect and endearment used toward black people by those children who were highly unlikely to be related to them, at least that's the way it was where and when I grew up. Hence: "Aunt" Jemima and "Uncle" Ben, both well loved and respected.

Too wholesome.  Must be done away with.

[libertybele]

Well...all I've got to say is "Aunt Jemima Pancakes without her syrup, is like the spring without the fall.....there's only one thing worse in this universe and that's no Aunt Jemima's at all.....


www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qyzH0SCmzI

[IsailedawayfromFR]

If I did my car that way in this Brooklyn neighborhood I’m pretty sure it’d be up in flames by morning. You’re blessed to be where you are.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

I worked for 6 years right outside NYC during the 80s and drove in from Connecticut every day with a red Toyota pickup sporting a rebel flag as my front license plate.  Sometimes had to drive into the city, all the way to JFK.

Never had one problem ever with anybody over it through the Bronx.

Now that flag sits proudly in Texas, the same state I graduated high school from whose mascot was the Rebels, and we flew a flag at every game.

[truth_seeker]

https://www.kcet.org/food-living/the-troubling-history-of-sambos-pancake-house

Sambo's iconic restaurant in Santa Barbara.

Amazing location

I predict a day may come, when more reasonable people regret destroying our history.

I lived and traveled in Europe, where therehave been plenty of bad times and deeds.

Fortunately it seems most of the time, they kept the history iintact.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Talking about tearing down monuments, here's one not far from me that must be destroyed as well.

Too bad its dedicated to a caring and happy women.  We just don't want those type of people to be remembered.

[sneakypete]

Good grief.   We have now officially entered the Bizarro World phase of our demise.  What's next?  Rewriting history books to show whites out picking cotton?   

@XenaLee

I dunno,but what I do know is I don't want to hear black celebs bitching because they can't get any endorsement contracts  months from now.

I don't know about you,but *I* plan on sending letters of protest to any corporation that uses blacks to sell their products. It's just plain racist!

[sneakypete]

Mrs. Butterworth was unavailable for comment....

@Cyber Liberty

Not unusual. I understand she gets invited to a lot of adult parties.

[sneakypete]

For the record...



I don't know what's supposed to be racist about that image, or its use.

@roamer_1

When you are a professional vic-tum,eberthang bees racist!

[sneakypete]

Where is THAT in the emblem or the image? By the way, I watch a lot of homesteaders on the yootoob, one of which is a black gal who is partial in this day to wearing a scarf just like that (that style, many different cloros etc), and yes, I have seen her make pancakes... And it is not just her - several others visiting her channel (guests on the show) are dressed the same way.

So it is a cultural thing, it seems, so why would it be racist to prortray it?

Is it so called cultural appropriation? I mean, a big corp trying to appeal to a segment of society using a cultural portrayal? If that is so, Betty Crocker's got a good case too.

I don't get whatever the problem is.

@roamer_1

LOTS of women,AND men of all ethnicities  wear a scarf over their heads when they are cooking over uncovered pots in order to keep hair out of the pot.

Not that reality has anything to do with this,of course.

[sneakypete]

@Cyber Liberty

Al Bundy was a wise man.

[mystery-ak]

They got Mrs. Butterworth too!

Mrs. Butterworth’s to Undergo ‘Complete Brand and Packaging Review’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/17/mrs-butterworths-to-undergo-complete-brand-and-packaging-review/

[mountaineer]

What am I missing? Mrs. Butterworth is a white woman. 

[corbe]

   I was thinking of another that needs to go, oops he died a few days ago.

[bigheadfred]

What am I missing? Mrs. Butterworth is a white woman. 

It is one of those race to the outhouse by Willy Makeit illustrated by Betty Wont things.

[sneakypete]

   I was thinking of another that needs to go, oops he died a few days ago.

@corbe

Really? I am sorry to hear that. He was a good actor,and too young to die.

What did he die from?

[DB]

The LEFT are the book burners.

And they are doing it again.

Anything they disagree with has to be destroyed. Truth is irrelevant.

That is the LEFT. It is what the LEFT has always done.

[Drago]

Can you link me to it, wiki says it was stereotyping.

Another take on the Nancy Green story:

https://aaregistry.org/story/nancy-green-the-original-aunt-jemima/ 

[Gefn]

   I was thinking of another that needs to go, oops he died a few days ago.

@corbe @sneakypete

According to Wikipedia, he’s alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Haysbert

[aligncare]

The LEFT are the book burners.

And they are doing it again.

Anything they disagree with has to be destroyed. Truth is irrelevant.

That is the LEFT. It is what the LEFT has always done.

That’s right. The democrats should no longer be allowed to tear down unopposed America’s history and unity as free Americans.

Think of the problem as similar to the “broken window” theory used by Giuliani to dramatically reduce crime in New York City. You address the small crimes, the broken windows, to prevent criminals from escalating to the bigger more serious crimes.

Right now Americans are looking away from the little things the Left has done. Tearing down American cultural icons, the statues, the confederate flag, historical documents, our language. But that has only escalated; now they’re after our institutions, policing, corrections, education, the family.

Stop it now, or lose it all.

[sneakypete]

The LEFT are the book burners.

And they are doing it again.

Anything they disagree with has to be destroyed. Truth is irrelevant.

That is the LEFT. It is what the LEFT has always done.

@DB

True. Every word of it. To survive and thrive,THEIR version of the "truth" MUST be the only one heard.

Not to worry,black people. Once they gain control they will give you the very best priority seats on the trains going to the forced labor camps.

[sneakypete]

@corbe @sneakypete

According to Wikipedia, he’s alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Haysbert

@Gefn

Thanks! I did a web search on him,and all I discovered is he is about 20 years older than I thought he was.