On 2020-06-17 1:01 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 6:27:07 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski
> wrote:
>> Is nothing sacred? After 130 years an old friend is gone. 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. IMO, the world would be a better place if everyone
>> had an Aunt like her.
>
> The call her "aunt" but she's not really your auntie. She'd be your
> mammy - a low-paid hired help that raised you from a baby. That
> concept is a pretty weird one in this day and age. Perhaps they can
> change her into a nice white lady. Then she'd be like a real aunt.
>

Sure. It could be a white lady. That would be the cue for people to
complain that black people are under represented in public images. In
Canada the low paid nanny that is making pancakes for breakfast for
little kids would be more likely to be Filipino.