On 2020-06-17 3:29 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> 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? 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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!
>
Next to go is Eskimo Pie, a chocolate covered hunk of ice cream on a
stick. We grew up thinking if Eskimo only as the name for the people in
the far north. We were also under the impression that it was the term
that the northern Indians used for them and that it meant eaters of raw
meat. Now it is seen as a pejora
tive.