On 6/17/2020 12:54 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> 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.Â* 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.
>

I see commercials all the time that have token minorities in them. It
will be more racist if they replace her with a white woman.

Is Uncle Ben next?