On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 23:03:02 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
> wrote:
>On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 4:37:05 PM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 6/17/2020 9:21 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> > On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 10:27:07 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> >> On 6/17/2020 3:29 PM, 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?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!
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Looks like Uncle Ben is going away too. The name comes from a rice
>> >> farmer known as Uncle Ben, back in 1943. Seems like they are honoring
>> >> the guy, not disparaging him.
>> >>
>> >> Is there a real Uncle Ben?
>> >> According to Mars, Uncle Ben was an African-American rice grower known
>> >> for the quality of his rice. Gordon L. Harwell, an entrepreneur who had
>> >> supplied rice to the armed forces in World War II, chose the name Uncle
>> >> Ben's as a means to expand his marketing efforts to the general public.
>> >
>> > That's fine, if the idea of your mom being forced to work for slave wages cleaning up other people's houses and raising other people's kids appeals to you. It's great if you think putting a grinning picture of your mom or aunt on a box of product to sell to generations of people that called her "mammy" because economic and
societal conditions forced her to raise them instead of raising you is a good thing.
>> >
>>
>> We evolved away from that years ago. I know people that make a very
>> good wage cleaning houses. You problem if you want to live with old
>> stereotypes and not move on.
>
>It's not really my problem. Yoose folks on the mainland can keep your vestiges of the old South that yoose so desperately cling to. Us guys on this rock have our own problems to tend to. I was just trying to get people to see what it looks like from the other guy's point of view. Oh well, we can't all be Gregory Peck.
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b05CMl4hwcc
A mouse and an elephant are crossing a bridge. The mouse says to the
elephant: "We're making the whole bridge shake."
That's dsi1's rock versus the mainland.