Announcing that theyre getting rid of the 130yearold aunt jemima brand famous for pancake mixes, maple syrup, and other breakfast foods. In a statement to nbc news, quaker oats writing in part, we recognize aunt jemimas origins are based on a racial stereotype. While work has been done over the years to update the brand in a manner intended to be appropriate and respectful, we realize those changes are not enough. Trevor thats right, after 130 yearsing it officially time to pour one out for aunt jemima. Dont worry. I put pancakes on the floor. Now, if you dont understand the big deal is, aunt jemima, from the beginning, was a classic slave mammy stereotype who got her name from an old blackface minstrel character. And although the company has tried to strip away the most racist stuff over the years people still associate aunt jemima with ads like this one from 1945, where aunt jemima is saying lawsee folks sho whoops with joy over aunt jemima pancakes. So, yeah, those ads were so racis
Century will soon be a thing of the past, quaker oats announcing that theyre getting rid of the 130yearold aunt jemima brand famous for pancake mixes, maple syrup, and other breakfast foods. In a statement to nbc news, quaker oats writing in part, we recognize aunt jemimas origins are based on a racial stereotype. While work has been done over the years to update the brand in a manner intended to be appropriate and respectful, we realize those changes are not enough. Trevor thats right, after 130 yearsing it officially time to pour one out for aunt jemima. Dont worry. I put pancakes on the floor. Now, if you dont understand the big deal is, aunt jemima, from the beginning, was a classic slave mammy stereotype who got her name from an old blackface minstrel character. And although the company has tried to strip away the most racist stuff over the years people still associate aunt jemima with ads like this one from 1945, where aunt jemima is saying lawsee folks sho whoops with joy over a
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Booktv and free speech tv. So i would ask to everybody to check their cellphones just to make sure that your cellphone is off. And also just so you know its being filmed tonight. We will be taking questions later, and passing around note cards, and then reading the questions from up here so they can also be part of the livestream and the booktv and there will be a booksigning afterwardded. Hay market books has a table and gary will by signing books. So please join is. This weekend i went to d. C. And had a couple of extra hour size went to she the king memorial. How many people have seen it . Its exceedingly depressing. Im sure he monument included alcoves to honor other civil rights martyr its but those were scrapped. King towers over us, the sculpture is flanked with a granite wall, 14 quotes on the wall, not one uses the word racism or segregation or Racial Injustice or apartheid, not one. Theyre earned like crossstretches, in 1963, 1967, 1955, 1963, 1964. Completely out of context