Aunt Jemima to be Dropped Over Origins in Racial Stereotype

My attitude is BECAUSE I spent so much time around black folks. I was born and raised in an area south of New Orleans referred to as the Westbank. Anyone who knows that area know what it's like there.

 

I'm cajun, which is french but sort of a different variety.

 

You really don't think they did a cost benefit analysis of this and it's future impact? It's a publically traded company. They definitely wouldn't do this if all estimated showed nothing but losses. There will be a huge marketing and advertising campaign over this to "introduce" the new product.

I'm sure their will be those who decide not to continue buying their stuff, just as their will be those who now buy it that it's changed.

I think you overestimate the first number though.

 

explains it
love me some Beignets

 

What about all of those movies with the N word in the title from the 1970s?

Google The Legend of N Charley, 1972.
The Soul of N Charley, 1973
Boss N, 1974
N Head Oysters
N Hair Smoking Tobacco
N Head Shrimp
N Head Shoe Polish
Darkie toothpaste

 

The people in charge responded to pressure from those who made it a big deal. I have no issue with their decision. What happens when society is shielded from potentially offensive content and someone gets offended the first time in their life at age 37?

I went the opposite direction with my 5 kids. I trained them how to respond to those trying to offend them.

 

you are underestimating how consumers shop and how name recognition is a key factor in that

take tissue for example the leading brand of tissue Kleenex became so popular the name Kleenex has entered the American vocabulary as an alternate name for tissue
same can be said for Tylenol

 

You most likely are correct about the syrup.

 

yes the names were racist but those movies were actually empowering for blacks they did not cast them in a negative light but a positive one

as matter of fact The Legend of N Charley influenced Quintino firm Django Unchained

 

is Quaker going to change its Quaker Oats name and picture? is that not stereotyping Quakers?

but let me guess its ok to stereotype whites
i guess because whites arent whinny little children looking for any reason to play the victim

 

We should stop forcing people to watch those movies and buying those products immediately.

 

It is obvious that you have never seen the original ads = https://www.theroot.com/offensive-racial-images-used-for-marketing-1790874676

 

Don't be such a control freak.

 

and all those products were made outside the US by forign owned and operated companies and decades ago

i guess thats a lesson in not buying from forign owned companies

 

True. Aunt Jemima pancake mix was what I ate growing up. I love pancakes and oddly enough, since the pandemic I have started cooking and 2 weeks ago I bought a box of Aunt Jemima and made pancakes myself for the first time in my life. They were great, even my first time out. I don't buy the syrup because it's corn syrup, not maple syrup.

 

can I ask you why did you buy the Aunt Jemima pancake mix? was it because of name recognition seeing the name and remembering its good? would you have bought it if the name was changed and you didn't know it? or would you have bought another brand that you recognized its name?

 

As I said above, I bought it because I grew up eating it. My father loved pancakes, made them for me since I can remember. When I was very young, you had to add milk and eggs to the mix. My father had a blue plastic container just for mixing the pancakes. It looked something like what ice cream parlors made milkshakes in. I still have that container to this day. That's how important the memory of growing up eating pancakes is to me.

 

The past matters. This erasure of our past, this erasure of our culture, this erasure of our art, this erasure of our monuments..... it all matters and this is why:

 

To compare ****** Head Oysters to aunt Jemima is crazy.. That site no doubt is far left and saying she was all about servitude is sketchy and biased.

****** Head is a term that has nothing to do with negro in case you don't know its definition.

No one but nuts equate aunt Jemima with servitude or stereotypes. Unless portly black women no longer cook pancakes. Or cook anything.

Dare we show any black person working? Unless they are a medical doctor?

Racism is not having black people on products . How stupid!

When I was a kid most people in the south thought black farmers grew the best water melons and people would buy their melons by preference. And black farmers took pride in this. Southern people black and white love water melon that originated in Africa. I buy one every couple of weeks and when in season here in august I buy them from local black farmers because they grow non hybrid heirlooms that are better tasting and sweeter.

I only agree with changing labels if it is indeed racist or demeaning to black folks. But not if ignorance and stupidity drives the demand to change.

Lordy we have a pie in the south called black bottom pie. Has nothing to do with black folks nor their booty. No doubt the ignorant woke will go after it next.

 

Are we all becoming woke:

 

Which is everything these days.

Tell me something once we remove these respectable icon, we could replace them all with white people I guess, how will the black community be better he next day, the next year, five years from now. Will this lower the amount of crime taking place in those communities, will it lower the rate of single motherhood, will it raise educational achievement, will it lower drug and alcohol abuse? What will be the tangible result to improving the status of the black community?

 

Hell I have. I went to school with them...in the hood for several years. Grew up with them in a town that was almost 50/50 split white/black. Got bussed to the hood too. A couple of them I knew landed on death row for gruesome murders. Even owned a business in the black part of town.....one day I had three hood rats all pull what looked to be 9mm's (choice of the hood) on me. I bought a scatter gun the next day to supplement my pistol. Finally sold, got tired of their bullshit.

 

Did I hear the N word when I grew up yes, it was used throughout the country. Did I use the word, no. Did I ever think of Miss Ruthie as a N word no. We respected her, she set us straight and knew everything that was going on in the neighborhood. What is your point here?

 

They are all "mythical" made up characters, so what?