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 logos inspiration by Billy Kersands minstrel song Old Aunt Jemima; and the logos 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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Is there any black professor, male or female, in Africa Studies, in our universities, who isn’t a batshit crazy racist?
So far I haven’t found any, and I have tried.
Affirmative Action scam-artists who prey on vulnerable blacks and guilt-ridden whites to get an undeserved large paycheck for poisoning minds and hearts.
Bookmark
I see my lawn jockey will soon get me arrested.
Don’t forget Uncle Ben.
“Tigers are Indian, not African.”
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I know that....the kid on the sign was not African.
He had eyes that looked somewhat Asian, a turban like a Sikh, and an Aladdin’s lamp like an Arab. There was nothing African about him.
Some blacks were offended because they were reminded of the “Little Black Sambo” nursery rhyme, but as I explained in my previous post, the name Sambo was derived from the first and last names of the restaurant’s founders.
Trans-Cereal Grain.
LOL. I was just talking with my mom today about Sambo’s. Been gone from down here for many many years.
Too bad there isn’t a mainstream republican politician with the guts to call the democrats out on Robert Byrd.
But they just kneel down to the democrat hypocrites time after time.
I’ve used to go to a Sambo’s all the time in Woodbridge Va.
I’m certain that that location was changed to Denny’s.
I assumed they were all changed to Denny’s.
Naw, son... His homo lover, the Cream of Wheat Chef, will keep Ben company.
Man... I glazed past that... thinking it was a new, hip, light skinned Aunt Jemima... then I looked again. Belly laugh ensued. Thanks.
I am so racist I make myself sick !
Very Good. Lets start with that.
Should cost WV about umpteen billion to wipe that out.
Fine. Then get rid of Colonel Sanders, the Trix Rabbit, Count Choco, Ronald McDonald, the Quaker guy, Morris the cat, Charlie the Tuna, Morton salt girl, Betty Crocker, etc. Can’t stop at cartoon humans. Animal cartoon lives matter, too!
I honestly thought they were going to have a meltdown.
Is this an actual old ad for Aunt Jemimah pancakes???
“That was a classic! Its been banned for years, of course. But I remember that story when I was a little kid in the early 1950s.”
My kindergarten class did that play in 1960. I played the part of Sambo. We wore blackface makeup. Not the white lips, but burnt cork all over the face.
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