"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> 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?

Yep. I heard that's going too.