Uncle Ben’s is a similar story.
Ping.
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.
Here’s her story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkETQ20Bem4
Usually you would have someone from the family make a statement, setting the record straight. Seems strange we haven't heard anything.
Perhaps this has nothing to do about “racism”, rather the fact that Nancy was a very successful capitalist.
I wonder who they are going to replace her with? I vote for RuPaul.
Nothing like $hitting on your own history, and the people who made it.
Pepsi sh*ts on a freed black who made good.
Democrats always were the party of slavery and hatred towards blacks.
Bump
Mohammedans where known to eschew business endeavors in favor of raiding and booty capture. Commerce was considered unmanly. Today’s black community seems to have this same spirit. If wealth cannot be gained through rioting and terror, it is not worth it!
Too bad Nancy Green’s ancestors aren’t fighting for her history.