Posted on 06/17/2020 11:15:50 AM PDT by kevcol
NEW YORK — The owner of the Uncle Ben’s brand of rice says the brand will “evolve” in response to concerns about racial stereotyping.
Caroline Sherman, a spokeswoman for Mars, which owns Uncle Ben’s, says the company is listening to the voices of consumers, especially in the black community, and recognizes that “now is the right time to evolve the brand, including its visual identity.”
In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, activists and consumers have demanded that companies take a stand against racial injustice or lose their business.
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That kid looks like Peter Stzrok!
Uncle Ben’s is not great rice, especially the execrable quick version. Rice is cheap. Buy a good quality Basmati or Jasmine.
At least for one production run
Quaker makes Aunt Jemima pancake mix... for some reason the white Quaker is still OK, maybe because some quakers have always been proponents of communist causes.
Remember the old generic black and white food boxes. We can go back to that but companies will complain there is no brand recognition and their packaging isn’t eye catching.
You may know it but don’t dare say it...
Black Ice Kills.
Take them out of all TV commercials too, especially the ones that feature mixed race couples, or a black with white friends, because it's obvious, if a black person is in any commercials that feature other races, then it's obvious they're being oppressed by the white folk in those ads.
I don’t buy that brand anyway, and won’t now for sure. I use Carolina Rice products.
That's the world they want, nobody should have an advantage over another, every company is equal. In fact let the state run the companies and make all prices the same and God forbid, no corporate profits.
Nothing kills a product faster than pandering to some special group.
Adding the title of Uncle or Aunt used to be a sign of respect for an older black person.
Don’t want to be associated with the rabid ferals burning and looting their own neighborhood? Don’t want to be associated with a group with a 95% illegitimacy rate, or that comprises 4% of the population but commits 50% of the crimes?
They must be racist.
Yep.
You'd think that would be acceptable. Bow ties are part of the Nation of Islam.
To avoid offending anybody, we need to remove ALL images of people from product packaging. We also need to eliminate ALL product sponsoring from athletes, celebrities, and politicians of any kind.
Which I do. It’s a rare thing to ever see a name brand in this house. Cheaper and tastes the same.
I have a 60 page ban list and do just fine not contributing my hard earned dime to them. Walmart is the exception to the rule since that’s about all we have here.
Like Moochie's permanent scowl. That'll kill any product it's on.
How about Uncle Ben Dover?
How about Thomas Jefferson Rice.
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