On 2020-06-17 12:27 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> Is nothing sacred?Â* After 130 years an old friend is gone.Â* We grew up
> with Aunt Jemima for breakfast but she is going away.
>
> Some have considered the familiar figure racists but to me, she was just
> a familiar face, a nice lady that just wanted you to have a good
> breakfast.Â* IMO, the world would be a better place if everyone had an
> Aunt like her.


Never underestimate the need for some people to feel the need to be
offended. Granted, the old image of Aunt Jemima did have that
antebellum air about it, but it had been updated years ago and simply
showed a black woman. I agree that she was just a familiar face.
Companies will be afraid to use black people as their spokespeople for
fear that someone will feel a need to whine about, and then they will
complain that the are not represented in commercial placement.