Posted on 09/23/2020 5:12:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Uncle Ben’s rice brand is getting a new name: Ben’s Original.
Parent firm Mars Inc. unveiled the change Wednesday for the 70-year-old brand, the latest company to drop a logo criticized as a racial stereotype. Packaging with the new name will hit stores next year.
“We listened to our associates and our customers and the time is right to make meaningful changes across society,” said Fiona Dawson, global president for Mars Food, multisales and global customers. “When you are making these changes, you are not going to please everyone. But it’s about doing the right thing, not the easy thing.”
Several companies have retired racial imagery from their branding in recent months, a ripple effect from the Black Lives Matters (sic) protests over the police killing of George Floyd and other African Americans. …
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What is racist about “Uncle Ben”?
Willard’s Original Maple Syrup next?
We should ask Spider-Man what he thinks.
Oh thank God. Now everyone can feel better about this. It had been so traumatizing to walk down the rice aisle.
Also known as (aka) “takin’ a knee”!
Doesn’t Mars produce the majority on confections currently on the market that include, over are covered with…chocolate?
Time to divest.
Uncle Joe’s. Put Stalin on the box.
And Uncle Ben’s Long Rice was particularly problematic.
Apparently, in the pre-Civil Rights South, it was considered polite / friendly to address older Negro men with the prefix "uncle." This is now viewed as having been condescending.
Regards,
Mars bar, now with white chocolate coating...oh wait!
Black Lives Matter successfully removes black iconic figure from packages of rice.
The KKK is celebrating this ethnic cleansing of our consumer products.
All images of “Native Americans” and black people must be removed from existence! Wait, no? Would that also be racist? This stuff is confusing. It’s almost like the people pushing it are lunatics.
Do black people care about Uncle Ben or Aunt Jemima? I’d say they do not. At all.
Well, they always knew that would get a rice out of you!
I am just baffled how we got to the point where gettinv rid of black people drom packaging is not racist.
How about Slant Eye rice? Has a nice ring to it. /sarcasm
They are just dropping the name? Weak. I demand they remove the face of Ben from the package too.
So, they will call it Uncle Tom’s’?............................
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