Posted on 06/25/2015 5:25:58 PM PDT by markomalley
Amid the current efforts to remove the Confederate flag as a symbol from state and federal buildings and to divest from its commercial circulation as a product and commodity, it is also important to remember that a host of products lining grocery store shelves to this day, including Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix and Aunt Jemima Syrup, are also very much linked to Southern racism.
Families, including children, still encounter Aunt Jemima on trips to the grocery store where products are marketed under this trademark by the Quaker Oats Company in the 21st century. Numerous writings have examined the development of the Aunt Jemima logo in 1889 by Chris L. Rutt and Charles G. Underwood for their ready-made pancake flour mix at the Pearl Milling Company; the logo’s inspiration by Billy Kersands’ minstrel song “Old Aunt Jemima”; and the logo’s eventual purchase and establishment as a trademark by the Quaker Oats Company in 1925, where it remains one of the longest continually running logos and trademarks in the history of American advertising.
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How about getting rid of Cracker Jack, as a white person I find that to be very racist
Uncle Ben's Converted Rice? Are they gonna dye it black?
Is Uncle Ben still on that box of rice?
Anyone want to go to Sambo’s in Santa Barbara?
Won’t Uncle Ben be lonely?
Uncle Ben will get pretty lonely.
When I was a little kiddie, I loved the look of Aunt Jemima. How is that racist, for heaven’s sake?
Wearing pants below the butt is a sign of homosexuality and thuggish ness of a racist nature. Let’s get rid of them, too! I’m offended by them.
Jemima—means “pigeon” or “dove” in Hebrew.
Don’t be ritin’ in cursive, now...
lol
Well maybe but not Uncle Ben, OK?
Racist that those blacks who want to be white and dye their hair blonde or wear blonde wigs like that specimen you posted....
And saltines! They’ve got to go!!!!
They’d better not replace the Cream of Wheat guy with some genderfluid SJW chillcore hipster wit tongue piercings.
Although this might be de rigeur in the New America.
How about the store Target..whenever people see that bull eye they just want to go on a shooting spree doesn’t everyone?
Ain’t Jemima . .RLOL (racist laughing out loud)
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