Posted on 03/24/2024 10:26:39 AM PDT by MAGA2017
A few days ago, I listed an unused and unopened bottle of Aunt Jemima syrup for sale on eBay. I have a couple of these that I purchased in 2020 during the BLM riots and the assault on American culture. I had no idea what the level of interest would be for this. But I was mildly to start getting bids right away and the bidding price reached $38 at one point. I noticed a problem with eBay right away as they would allow to use the words or term "Aunt Jemima". So, I had to list it as "AJ Syrup" and used the word "discontinued". I discovered this morning that eBay cancelled the auction. "This listing has a policy violation.". Good grief. I'm not really surprised but this is so stupid. I don't know if will work but I posted the link to the auction if you want to see it. What was my "crime" here?
DEI=DIE. ‘nuff said.
Page is gone.
“Cultural appropriation?” </sarcasm>
Keep a hold of them in the next decade, and then go to an auction house like Sotheby’s, it will be the next Picasso.
I would have listed the item “vintage collectible syrup bottle.”
Now do the once greats Disney’s “Song of the South”.
Or, claim you will donate the winning bid to BLM.
And yet rap and hiphop use the N word and disrespect women ad nauseam and nobody bats an eye.
Uncle Ben called in to complain-
You can still get Song of the South snippets on youTube, and the DVD is available (pirated) in Singapore. A truly wonderful and human film. Sad to see it lost to intolerance.
OK, that figures. I guess my mistake was doing a 10-day auction. I really had no idea if there would be much interest from people but there was. Should have done a shorter auction before eBay noticed it.
but give it to “Babies Lives Matter” instead
WIKI
In 1888, St. Joseph Gazette editor Chris L. Rutt and his friend Charles G. Underwood bought a small flour mill at 214 North 2nd St. in St. Joseph, Missouri. Rutt and Underwood’s “Pearl Milling Company” produced a range of milled products (such as wheat flour and cornmeal) using a pearl milling process. Facing a glutted flour market, after a year of experimentation they began selling their excess flour in paper bags with the generic label “Self-Rising Pancake Flour” (later dubbed “the first ready-mix”).
To distinguish their pancake mix, in late 1889 Rutt appropriated the Aunt Jemima name and image from lithographed posters seen at a vaudeville house in St. Joseph, Missouri.
In 1915, the well-known Aunt Jemima brand was the basis for a trademark law ruling that set a new precedent. Previously, United States trademark law had protected against infringement by other sellers of the same product, but under the “Aunt Jemima Doctrine”, the seller of pancake mix was also protected against infringement by an unrelated seller of a different but related product—pancake syrup. Aunt Jemima became one of the longest continually running logos and trademarks in the history of American advertising.
The earliest advertising was based upon a vaudeville parody, and it remained a caricature for many years.
Quaker Oats commissioned Haddon Sundblom, a nationally known commercial artist, to paint a portrait of an obese actress named Anna Robinson, and the Aunt Jemima package was redesigned around the new likeness.
James J. Jaffee, a freelance artist from the Bronx, New York, also designed one of the images of Aunt Jemima used by Quaker Oats to market the product into the mid-20th century.
Just as the formula for the mix changed several times over the years, so did the Aunt Jemima image. In 1968, the face of Aunt Jemima became a composited creation. She was slimmed down from her previous appearance, depicting a more “svelte” look, wearing a white collar and a geometric print “headband” still resembling her previous kerchief.
In 1989, marking the 100th anniversary of the brand, her image was again updated, with all head-covering removed, revealing wavy, gray-streaked hair, gold-trimmed pearl earrings, and replacing her plain white collar with lace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jemima
They’re racists. The black woman on the syrup bottle is gone, the black man on the rice box is gone, the indian woman on the butter is gone, but they kept the land, and the old white man on the oats box is still there.
Some interesting history I had not read before:
https://historycollection.com/the-real-and-problematic-history-behind-aunt-jemima/
Yeah, I did see one or two other listings for this. Not sure why this listing is allowed so far. I’m thinking maybe someone saw my listing and complained to eBay?
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