What's wrong with Aunt Jemima, and Uncle Ben's being black? I don't see how that is racist to have them on their products. It seems racist to be taking them off the products.
She was real her name was Nancy Green. She was a freed slave who used her profits to do good. Common sense suggests that it is a tribute to her but many lack common sense.
@MethDozer I'm sorry. When you said "I have no doubt you will be trying to ride my dick for quite awhile" I should've been more honest and informed you that's what I told your sister.
Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben in and of themselves do not exhibit racism, but a certain paying demographic today frantically sees color first. These images of previously accepted products apparently are an affront to that demographic now. As a Latino I grew up enjoying Aunt Jemima's pancakes made from that box and not once did I lose respect for or see my Black neighbors as anything different than us.
Like any business, in order to stay afloat they must sell a product that the paying public accepts and buys. If the product was making kitten sandwiches and selling them to a select clientele who would pay for that, they would. Look at China. They have dog and cat meat cooked and ready to eat off the hook in markets. A bit exaggerated but you get the picture. So no, they're not racist extreme, they just don't want people to stop buying their product.
@smiler2012 Yes, political correctness is like a malignant tumor spreading throughout the system and infecting the body politic. It's cousin "Virtue Signaling" follows its coat tails for a free ride.
I’m not familiar with “uncle ben” but in all fairness, Aunt Jemima does derive from a racist “mammy” stereotype. I usually criticize these accusations of racism as just PC nonsense, but this is a rare example where the accusers actually have a point.
This is nothing really all that new--- Late 60's or early 70's Frito was forced to quit using their cartoon character "The Frito Bandito" because of stereotyping of Mexicans,, or maybe Hispanics, in general
Long history with these products and the depictions of the characters and names of the products. https://www.bing.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/business/aunt-jemima-mrs-butterworth-uncle-ben.amp.html Read this article on the topic.
@Chevy454 Well the UK had to ban a Noddy character called golliwog, it was a also a brand of marmalade. I'm not sure if it was the 70s or 80s when it was banned
didn't you read BLM demands!? Quaker Oats remove Aunt Jemima, and, Hulu remove that Golden Girls episode where Rose and Blanch test a new mud face treatment