On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 7:31:48 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> 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?

You better believe it! They want to get rid of Mrs. Butterworth too. I'm thinking that might not be possible since the bottle is the product. I never thought Mrs. B was a black lady anyway. Her name should be your first clue about that matter. I'd be agreeable to changing the name to Mrs. Doubtfire and altering the bottle a little. In fact, that would be awesome!