Posted on 06/18/2020 6:54:47 AM PDT by PBRCat
Pepsico, the corporation that owns the Aunt Jemima brand, is erasing the name and the logo portrait of a black woman “to make progress toward racial equality” and in doing so is also erasing the legacy of Nancy Green, a freed slave who had a long career with the Quaker Oats company as a storyteller, actress, and singer.
Miss Green was born a slave in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Chris Rutt, a newspaperman, and Charles Underwood bought the Pearl Milling Company and had the original idea of developing and packaging a ready-mixed, self-rising pancake flour. To survive in a highly competitive business, the men needed an image for their product.
But Nancy Green, at 56, was hired to help the company sell their product at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Green, as Aunt Jimema, cooked and served thousands of pancakes while telling stories and even singing songs.
“Her warm and appealing personality made her the ideal ‘Aunt Jemima,’ a living trademark. Her exhibition booth drew so many people that special policemen were assigned to keep the crowds moving. The Davis Milling Company received over 50,000 orders, and Fair officials awarded Nancy Green a medal and certificate for her showmanship.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Uncle Ben’s is a similar story.
Ping.
Details don’t matter, we have to act NOW!!
It’s offensive to have black people depicted on the products I buy.
It’s offensive to have black people depicted in TV commercials.
It’s offensive to see black people depicted on TV at all.
Where is the line drawn, and why?
So blacks are proving they’re against racism by removing an image and tribute to a freed slave woman from pancake boxes.
Uh, okay.
After they cancel all these products the next round of protests will be about the lack of cultural representation in product branding.
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Pepsico, the corporation that owns the Aunt Jemima brand, is erasing the name and the logo portrait of a black woman and in doing so is also erasing the legacy of Nancy Green, a freed slave who had a long career with the Quaker Oats company.
Her warm and appealing personality made her the ideal ‘Aunt Jemima,’ a living trademark. Her exhibition booth drew so many people that special policemen were assigned to keep the crowds moving.
oh the multiple layers of irony
Why is it that only White People care enough about the history of the Black Culture to report on it?
This is fascinating stuff. Yet liberals want to erase it.
Same with Song of the South. A powerful movie filled with stories from Africa. Yet by banishing it, the send a clear message:
Black people should be ashamed of their heritage, history and culture.
Some day in the future? Blacks will be equally (and rightfully) ashamed of their ghetto, hip hop and racist culture that exists today.
Exactly.
Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for crying out loud!
Yet liberals want to send her and this great movie down the rabbit hole. Because racism.
Where is the line drawn, and why?
Correct it all by making sure that each ad includes an inter-racial or homosexual couple. </Madison_Avenue>
Here’s her story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkETQ20Bem4
Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for crying out loud!
Yet liberals want to send her and this great movie down the rabbit hole. Because racism.
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Well, then they can claim that there aren’t any black women on pancake boxes or in old American films.
Usually you would have someone from the family make a statement, setting the record straight. Seems strange we haven't heard anything.
And she went on to be the first black woman millionaire...
Perhaps this has nothing to do about “racism”, rather the fact that Nancy was a very successful capitalist.
In 5 years blacks will be whining about products only having pictures of whites ... whatever keeps the pity party going.
The press has their story line - it's called 'racism'. They're NOT going to look for anything else. The pity party must go on...and on...and on...and on.
I guess Watermelon Man is lost ?
I doubt there will be many anthropomorphic brands apart from celebrity endorsements, for fear of offending somebody. We will be treated to bland Orwellian "Vicotry" gin and cigarette labels. Madison Avenue businesses will turn their focus from "what sells?" to "what is least offensive?"
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