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Black comedian and commentator Terrance Williams decided to buck the left by launching his own, legitimate pancake mix and put his own face on the box. But now Facebook is banning the man’s product because they are calling a pancake mix with a black man’s face on the box an example of “racism.” Williams was incensed when they began taking black people off packaging — Mrs. Butterworth’s and Aunt Jemima, for instance — to assuage woke whiners. So, he launched his own product line and put his face on the box. “So according to Facebook, my Pancakes are racist!” Williams...

Voices are rising up against the decision of Quaker Oats to cancel Aunt Jemima. Family members of women who portrayed Aunt Jemima are not happy about erasing the iconic marketing symbol now.Lillian Richard, an East Texas native, is credited with putting Hawkins, Texas on the map. The small town of 1,278 as of the 2010 census was even named the pancake capital of Texas by the state’s historical commission because of her. Visitors are welcomed by signs proclaiming the town as “Home of Lillian Richard ‘Aunt Jemima.’ Ms. Richard was an ambassador for Quaker Oats. Vera Harris is the...

Pepsico, the corporation that owns the Aunt Jemima brand, is erasing the name and the logo portrait of a black woman “to make progress toward racial equality” 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 as a storyteller, actress, and singer. Miss Green was born a slave in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Chris Rutt, a newspaperman, and Charles Underwood bought the Pearl Milling Company and had the original idea of developing and packaging a ready-mixed, self-rising pancake flour. To survive in a highly competitive...