When I used to eat them the black ones were my favorite, but then I did grow up near the wrong side of the tracks so my white privilege isn't all that strong. I like watermelon and fried chicken too. Hell I even smoked a pack of Newport's every now and then. We're in a contest people, a just how fucking stupid can we be contest, and god dammit we're going for the gold.
To be fair though you are only in a contest with yourselves and enjoying the drama. Moderate right and left struggle with the fringe though the right is inordinately vocal about the left loonies vs their actual manageability. Yeah... I can't agree there (but agree with something else, always something you can) works wonders. Just say it like a fair man. I have been in the most fucking horrendous bullshit through old girlfriends and their committees. I got a director of Friends of the Earth to agree to support new gen nuclear power. It how you frame it.
I can see how we'd want to cancel Aunt Jemima. Green was born into slavery on March 4, 1834, near Mount Sterling in Montgomery County, Kentucky.[4] She was hired in 1890[5] by the R.T. Davis Milling Company in St. Joseph, Missouri, to represent "Aunt Jemima", an advertising character named after a song from a minstrel show.[3] Davis Milling had recently acquired the formula to a ready-mixed, self-rising pancake flour from St. Joseph Gazette editor Chris L. Rutt and Charles Underwood and were looking to employ an African-American woman as a Mammy archetype to promote their new product.[6] In 1893 Green was introduced as Aunt Jemima at the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, where it was her job to operate a pancake-cooking display. Her amicable personality and talent as a cook for the Walker family, whose children grew up to become Chicago Circuit Judge Charles M. Walker and Dr. Samuel Walker[7] helped establish a successful showing of the product, for which she received a medal and certificate from the Expo officials.[3] After the Expo, Green was offered a lifetime contract to adopt the Aunt Jemima moniker and promote the pancake mix. This marked the beginning of a major promotional push by the company that included thousands of personal appearances and Aunt Jemima merchandising. Nancy Green maintained her job with Davis Milling (which was renamed Aunt Jemima Mills Company in 1914)[8] until her death in 1923; she was still working as Aunt Jemima at the time.
The main thing is to get rid of negative stereotypes, because they bring things down. We need more publicity of great role models like black doctors,, executives etc.. the two best bosses I had were black, as were many friends in bands etc. Normally I'm against editing but seriously the old stereotype stuff does more harm than good imho
Movie, Hidden Figures. Excellent cultural commentary. https://www.popularmechanics.com/sp...dden-figures-real-story-nasa-women-computers/ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hidden_figures
No, I wouldn't. But then again, no one was using an enslaved woman as their brand. She was free, willing and it was a brand representing her plight and drawing attention to the hardships she endured.
After Aunt Jemima, people call to cancel Uncle Ben’s and Mrs. Butterworth’s https://nypost.com/2020/06/17/aunt-jemima-logo-change-are-uncle-bens-mrs-butterworths-next/ Following Quaker Foods’ announcement Wednesday that it will scrap the 130-year-old Aunt Jemima breakfast brand name over its “racist stereotype” origins, critics are now also calling for an end to the Uncle Ben’s and Mrs. Butterworth’s logos. Mars Inc., the parent brand of Uncle Ben’s, immediately took note and has already announced it will be “evolving” the logo. “As we listen to the voices of consumers, especially in the black community, and to the voices of our associates worldwide, we recognize that one way we can do this is by evolving the Uncle Ben’s brand, including its visual brand identity,” a Mars Inc. spokesman tells The Post. The Uncle Ben character has been used since 1946 and has long been criticized for being a racist stereotype. “Uncle Ben must be dead man walking,” tweeted radio host Larry Elder alongside a screenshot of the news coverage announcing Aunt Jemima being canceled. Many are also calling for the Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup brand to be re-evaluated. The syrup, sold in a matronly woman-shaped bottle, is accused of being rooted in mammy culture and was modeled after the body of Thelma “Butterfly” McQueen, the black actress who played Prissy in “Gone With The Wind.” The Jim Crow-era “mammy” character was often used to show that black women were happy working in white households. “Saw both Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima trending. Rumor has it Mrs. Butterworth is now in the witness protection program,” one critic tweeted. Conagra Brands, the company which manufactures Mrs. Butterworth’s, responded to the calls for change by Wednesday night. “The Mrs. Butterworth’s brand, including its syrup packaging, is intended to evoke the images of a loving grandmother,” a Conagra rep told The Post in a statement. “We stand in solidarity with our Black and Brown communities and we can see that our packaging may be interpreted in a way that is wholly inconsistent with our values. We understand that our actions help play an important role in eliminating racial bias and as a result, we have begun a complete brand and packaging review on Mrs. Butterworth’s.” The breakfast brand reformation is the latest in a series of cultural relics recently canceled in the name of racism, including the TV show “Cops.” A pair of California schools named for Washington and Jefferson are also getting renamed in light of nationwide backlash to institutionalized racism, following the deaths of black Americans, including George Floyd, at the hands of the police. The musical group Lady Antebellum also changed its name to Lady A in support of Black Lives Matter activism.
I cannot take any of this very seriously anymore. I mean really, Aunt Jemima? This is such an obvious white guilt virtue signaling stunt I can't believe anyone would buy it. Black guy murdered by white cop. Hmmm, what to do? I know, lets rebrand the syrup, that'll appease them, and some geniuses sitting around a boardroom table actually think it's a good idea. It is impossible for me to listen to this nonsense and just not bust out laughing.