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Can We Please, Finally, Get Rid of ‘Aunt Jemima’? [Projectile Vomit Alert]
New York Slimes ^ | 6/25/15 | Riché Richardson

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: agitprop; auntjemima; blacks; kitsch; leftwingracism; newyorkslimes; quakerfoods
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1 posted on 06/25/2015 5:25:58 PM PDT by markomalley
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How about getting rid of Cracker Jack, as a white person I find that to be very racist


2 posted on 06/25/2015 5:28:31 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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How about getting rid of Cracker Jack, as a white person I find that to be very racist

Uncle Ben's Converted Rice? Are they gonna dye it black?

3 posted on 06/25/2015 5:29:36 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: markomalley

Is Uncle Ben still on that box of rice?

Anyone want to go to Sambo’s in Santa Barbara?


4 posted on 06/25/2015 5:29:45 PM PDT by rey
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To: markomalley

Won’t Uncle Ben be lonely?


5 posted on 06/25/2015 5:29:51 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: markomalley

Uncle Ben will get pretty lonely.


6 posted on 06/25/2015 5:30:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: markomalley

When I was a little kiddie, I loved the look of Aunt Jemima. How is that racist, for heaven’s sake?


7 posted on 06/25/2015 5:30:48 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: markomalley
Howzabout this, instead?


8 posted on 06/25/2015 5:31:24 PM PDT by twister881
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To: markomalley
Blonde hair? Thats Rasis!


9 posted on 06/25/2015 5:31:33 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Law is whatever the Oligarchs say it is today. You little people can STFU or get locked up.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Wearing pants below the butt is a sign of homosexuality and thuggish ness of a racist nature. Let’s get rid of them, too! I’m offended by them.


10 posted on 06/25/2015 5:31:33 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: markomalley

Jemima—means “pigeon” or “dove” in Hebrew.


11 posted on 06/25/2015 5:33:17 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: twister881

Don’t be ritin’ in cursive, now...


12 posted on 06/25/2015 5:33:18 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: twister881

lol


13 posted on 06/25/2015 5:33:28 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: markomalley

Well maybe but not Uncle Ben, OK?


14 posted on 06/25/2015 5:34:41 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Uncle Miltie

Racist that those blacks who want to be white and dye their hair blonde or wear blonde wigs like that specimen you posted....


15 posted on 06/25/2015 5:34:52 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (The Sun Never Sets on Liberal Idiocy)
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To: markomalley

16 posted on 06/25/2015 5:35:02 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: markomalley

And saltines! They’ve got to go!!!!


17 posted on 06/25/2015 5:35:07 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

They’d better not replace the Cream of Wheat guy with some genderfluid SJW chillcore hipster wit tongue piercings.

Although this might be de rigeur in the New America.


18 posted on 06/25/2015 5:35:36 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: freeangel

How about the store Target..whenever people see that bull eye they just want to go on a shooting spree doesn’t everyone?


19 posted on 06/25/2015 5:36:27 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: twister881

Ain’t Jemima . .RLOL (racist laughing out loud)


20 posted on 06/25/2015 5:37:58 PM PDT by McBuff
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