[Olog-hai]

Post #5 of this thread was prophetic.

[Mr. K]

What is racist about “Uncle Ben”?

[freedumb2003]

Willard’s Original Maple Syrup next?

[headstamp 2]

Oh thank God. Now everyone can feel better about this. It had been so traumatizing to walk down the rice aisle.

[SES1066]

Also known as (aka) “takin’ a knee”!

[liberalh8ter]

I would have changed the name to Uncle Tom’s. Go big or go home.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Doesn’t Mars produce the majority on confections currently on the market that include, over are covered with…chocolate?
Time to divest.

[jdsteel]

And Uncle Ben’s Long Rice was particularly problematic.

[Erik Latranyi]

Black Lives Matter successfully removes black iconic figure from packages of rice.

The KKK is celebrating this ethnic cleansing of our consumer products.

[cdcdawg]

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.

[Phillyred]

I am just baffled how we got to the point where gettinv rid of black people drom packaging is not racist.

[central_va]

How about Slant Eye rice? Has a nice ring to it. /sarcasm

[CodeJockey]

They are just dropping the name? Weak. I demand they remove the face of Ben from the package too.

[Red Badger]

So, they will call it Uncle Tom’s’?............................

[HombreSecreto]

Uncle Ben is now Aunt Karen...

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Need to get over to Taiwan and get them to fix this:

[Old Yeller]

Uncle Tom’s Whitey Rice

[Hatteras]

"Several companies have retired racial imagery from their branding in recent months...."

You mean "white-washed"?

[coon2000]

Black rice matters

[Skywise]

Really... just change the pic to a white guy and call it Chef Ben’s.

In fact - all characters used to market products should be white to be safe.

Wait... why is there no diversity in marketing again? Do these capitalist oppressors think there’s only one race?

Waiting for Sprite to be attacked next for proclaiming it’s a “Soda for blacks”

[central_va]

Packaging and sports paraphernalia are being washed of minorities but at the same time every commercial and TV show is all minorities ( and queers ) all the time. I don’t get it.