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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You won’t see General Mills putting Kaitlyn on a Wheaties box. They can talk PC nonsense but it won’t happen.
It won’t sell cereal. It will make people vomit.
Wrong box - Fruit Loops.
8^)
That’s the only Sambo’s left. The PC gestapo hounded the chain years ago.
Sambo was of course a reference to the 1899 Scottish children’s book about a South Indian boy from Politically Correct Governor Nikki Haley’s parental homeland.
In the children’s story a tiger that was pursuing Sambo turns into a pool of butter and is made into pancakes. Obviously racist.
The insane maniacs want to erase all signs of racism, except anti-White racism.
I recall that when I was a deckhand on a fishing boat, the capstan on deck was familiarly known as a “Niggerhead”.
I understand why people might not want to see the flag in a public place. I don’t care, but I can understand it.
But being offended by a cartoon. On a bottle of crappy syrup? That’s sounds like Islamophobia to me.
This may sound terrible, but people have the freedom to be racist if they want to be.
God knows the blacks are more racist than the whites, and they get no criticism.
“This may sound terrible, but people have the freedom to be racist if they want to be.”
Freedom, What freedom? Say you went out and bought a shirt with the Confederate flag on it today. You go to the supermarket, someone is offended. They kick you out. You wear it to the HOA pool that you pay HOA fees to use. Somebody complains it is causing a disturbance. They kick you out. You will be kicked out from the movie theater, the library, the restaurant, and the list goes on because they have been so whipped up into a frenzy about the stars and bars that they have made it darn close to illegal to wear it.
In the old days, I always thought that, comes the revolution, Al would be one of the first ones to be eaten because he was so well-marbled. Then he lost weight...and I still think that, comes the revolution, he’ll be one of the first to get eaten, because he looks like a freaking Slim Jim.
They got rid of a wonderful Disney movie years ago because they said it was racists. The name of it was “Song of the South” (Uncle Remus and Bear Rabbit) Was a great movie and I was very sad to see it banned in America. What happened in the past cannot be changed no matter what they take down or ban.
Hmmm, wash it down with some billy beer.
Can we finally get rid of Harry Belafonte as well? #RedCommunistLivesMatter
I like how the boy looks petrified. He’s too terrified to eat.
woop they it id!
This just in, Aunt Jemima is engaged to Mrs. Butterworth.
Enough already! Stop the insanity!
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