What is it going to be called now without the image? Land O Lakes can sort of get away with it, but if it's something like Uncle Ben's and Aunt Jemima with an image, what would it become? Some generic product.
I assume Aunt Jemima is just going to be called Quaker Oats Pancakes.
Dunno what Uncle Ben's will do. That's a different company. They should license the Uncle Ben character from Marvel.
Lol when they remove the coloured people from the product not realizing that they aren't respecting the history behind it, racist or not. They changed Aunt Jemima's image many a years ago, and nobody really gave two shits until now because they found an excuse for it.
They already removed her house nigger image and gave her a more domestic fifties housewife look. If anything, wiki was the worst thing to happen. No one gave a shit about corporate mascots until they found they were made a hundred years ago when black were just starting to get into the work force (working for whitey).
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They already removed her house nigger image and gave her a more domestic fifties housewife look. If anything, wiki was the worst thing to happen. No one gave a shit about corporate mascots until they found they were made a hundred years ago when black were just starting to get into the work force (working for whitey).
Even this won't be enough. It might buy them some time. Whenever the next big outrage cycle happens, shitstirrers will bring up that the product USED TO BE called Aunt Jemima and try to shakedown the company again.
You know, not months earlier some woman found the burial site of Nancy Green, the woman who portrayed Aunt Jemima, after spending 15 years looking for it. There was no marker or gravestone there so the woman started a crowdfund to get her a proper marker. But first she went to Quaker Oats and asked them if they would at least contribute, not even pay for outright but just contribute, to a monument for this woman. The response from these corporate parasites was 'Aunt Jemima and Nancy Green aren't the same person'. This woman's image and likeness have made them probably billions of dollars and they wouldn't even pay a pittance to give her proper memorial
So Quaker Oats relish the opportunity these cretins have given them to avoid giving the woman her due AND appear woke for doing so.
Even this won't be enough. It might buy them some time. Whenever the next big outrage cycle happens, shitstirrers will bring up that the product USED TO BE called Aunt Jemima and try to shakedown the company again.
"You'v earned billions for decades using racism!"
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So speaking of fake news. I was looking through Mrs. Butterworth commercials, because I had no recollection of her being black. I could have sworn she was "white". Sure enough...
I'm trying to find any old commercial where she sounds like a mammy and there's nothing. Wiki says the brand only dates back to 1961. It's doubtful that a company would be doing that darkie shit by that time.
