Aunt Jemima to be Dropped Over Origins in Racial Stereotype

You disagree? So you think changing food labels and removing statues will make fathers stay around and take care of their children? You think it will make kids stay in school, commit less crimes, not murder each other at the current rate?

 

I really don't understand the strategy of removing minority symbols from products promotes the idiots goals.. but then, being idiots, neither do they.

 

I think the real problem is that everyone is an individual and we can't draw up a treaty because everyone has his own POV and therefore race is in the eye of the beholder as is justice. I would just hope we can get along. At one time I can remember when listening to WLS in Chicago that a person came on the radio and said that Negro was the proper term. So Negro Head could have been a sign of respect .... or at least accommodation. But then there was the Goldust Twins washing powder.

 

BTW, I'm trying to remember... was there ever a time when American negroes were conspicuous for their own celebrated, ethnic SYRUP?

There are many culinary delights that are correctly associated with American negro cooking, but I just don't remember the formulation of syrup being among them....

And if they had, I doubt they would have been using HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP to make it. Most people, and certainly those in the southern U. S., would have surely used pure cane sugar. But, again, pure maple syrup is uncontestedly the best!

 

I asked about the current image. Those who see more than a lady smiling are the ones with the race issue.

 

Oh yeah! If I see an old black man cooking BBQ.. that's were I'm going!

 

Reminds me of these two black women started this like roadside BBQ back in the 70's, basically a roof with dirt floors, two large cauldrons, that place was totally packed. It was across the street from the mill, we drove there from Atlanta just for that: http://www.innatthemill.com/

 

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Maple syrup is basically a northern "grown " product. I put quotes around "grown" because it take a hell of a long tine to grow maple trees that produce the type of sap that has the right type of sugars to pruduce maple syrup. It takes a northern climate so the "Negro" cooks who got there culinary "training" in the South would not likely be using maple syrup just as Southern Whites would not. Conukiatan rivals us in maple syrup production. In fact they love it so much they but the Maple Leaf on their new flag.

 

Your asking why people have an issue and when presented with the reason, you ignore it.

Not much else I can do to help you, except to maybe email Quaker and ask them why they think it wasnt what they wanted representing the product anymore.

 

There isn't any black folks in your town, so how do you know what black fathers are doing. What is the root cause of that crime?

 

Perfect!


And she was never heard from again!

 

The reason presented is not based on the current image. The current logo is a lady smiling that is now being fired because of the color of her skin.

 

The syrup came much later. The brand was primarily a baking/pancake mix (think Bisquick) for over 60 years before syrup was added to the lineup.

 

Still seemed to be enough for Quaker. I guess they can actually view something with historical context rather then simply viewing the surface and assuming that's how deep it goes. If they didn't feel like it was an issue, they wouldn't have changed it.

 

lack of father figures as positive male role models.

 

We know why they changed it. While the image became more positive through the years, it was not enough to keep up with the increasing rate of sensitivity. Society becoming hyper sensitive is a much bigger issue. A man in the appliance store was upset because all the washing machines were white. They told him that the agitators come in different colors!

 

Right, because the argument against "PC culture" or "over sensitivity" has only literally popped up in the last few months. Sheesh.

It's been something folks like yourself have been yelling about for decades. When I was a kid the fight against "PC culture" was being argued.

If that were the case, then Aunt Jemima would have bee put to pasture a long time ago.

Evidently the people in charge felt now was the right time to do it. And really, it's the private decision of a company. The only people it has to answer too is it's shareholders (or, at least, that's what I've been told by the libertarian conservatives on here and elsewhere for a long time), and if they don't mind, that's their issue.

 

its called being informed with the facts you should try it sometimes
study after study statistics after statistics prove that children that are forced to grow up in a fatherless household have a an overwhelming tendency to commit crimes and or stay in poverty
and the race which has the highest percentage of single mother households are blacks at over 65%



do you see the correlation in the graph?
the races with the lowest percentage of single parent households are the most successful

 

You keep saying that like I didn't spend my first 40 years in a black area. But I'll still take this response as a non-response.

 

Deep southerners make pure cane syrup, which is freakin' amazing on pain perdu and crepes

 

That is only a small part of it.

 

I can tell from your attitude you haven't spent anytime around black folks.

 

do you really think it was a decision to improve their bottom line
do you think more people will buy their product over the name change? they will lose business not because people will protest over the name change but because of product recognition
many companies built their customer base by name recognition you change the name you change its recognition
two of the biggest names in syrup were Aunt Jamima and Log Cabin now the shopper staring at the syrup shelf at the grocery store doesn't see the familiar Aunt Jamima name and label but sees the other popular syrup log Cabin which do you think it will grab?

the company is going to take a massive hit and i hope they thought that through and decided it was worth the lose

 

Southern syrup on French Crepes lol
i guess thats called Fusion Cuisine