R.I.P. Aunt Jemima

SNL's version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFLuGVOWlkc

Didn't that happen like 2 years ago?

There's only one thing worse in this universe

That's no Aunt Jemima's at all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZbsFkvMSaY

fell in love in '72

I was 7. She was cheap and tasted good.

rip, sweet mama

^sounds like your first hooker joe.

I think all this political correctness is a little over the top. Too many sensitive people today.

Yes, political correctness has gone too far. No, removing blatantly racist shit like the Redskin, Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima is not going too far. It's called societal progress.

Maybe not the climate to admit this but one Halloween I dressed up as Aunt Jemima when I was around 11.

RIP Ms. Sweet and Sticky 

I dressed up as Aunt Jemima when I was around 11.

^^^^^^^

I was 18

I recall being 9 or 10 years old and I called a black kid Jemima at the lake we were swimming at and the parents all came down on me with such wrath- I really had no idea the racist connotation of it- I just associated the black kid with the character on the syrup bottle.

Sorry Briank but if you find those people's images racist I think your looking too far into to what they represent. IMO!

If they were Chinese would you feel the same.

Is Juan Valdez a racist image?

Ask a person of color.

The first five ingredients were sugar, the rest was artificial.  As a kid, you basically drank it, went outside with your friends, ran around all day and burned it off.

And as a kid, no one thought about the racist implication of the figure of Aunt Jemima.  She was a bottle of syrup and a tv commercial figure who made kids happy.

but fond memories aside,  this was long overdue and a step in the right direction.

True Surf. I wonder though how many African Americans find it racist though.

And I saw Aunt Jemima as a grandmotherly figure.Nothing more.

Same with Uncle Ben.

Those images, Dolittle, aren't just of Black people. They are the stereotypical house-boy and slave "mammy." They are outdated and stupid. Yes, I'd feel the same if it was a negative stereotype of  a Chinese person or a Jew.

If you don't see that it's high time to move on from that shit, as a society, good for you.

If you feel attached to a high fructose corn syrup i'm not sure what to say.  

>>>>Ask a person of color

A Harris poll showed that 51 percent of black men and 64 percent of black women believe Aunt Jemima should be rebranded, compared with 47 percent and 32 percent of white men and women, respectively. For Uncle Ben’s 47 percent of black men and 52 percent of black women support rebranding, compared to 37 percent and 24 percent, respectively, of white men and women.

So Ken it's 50/50 more or less.I could care less either way. But I never looked at it as racism. Too me calling a person black or white is more racist.

And Briank if you see AJ as a slave mammy then that's on you. I never did! Like I said I just saw her as an old Negro motherly figure.

You'll never understand the value of imagery and symbolism, and how it propagates systemic racism. I doubt that you'll ever understand systemic racism itself.

Doolittle doesn't see any issue at all here.

gee, go figure.......

If 50% of African American's have no problem with it and don't see it as racist then why do you!!!!

But like I said I could care less either way!

I

"I'm too lazy to dedicate any amount of critical thought to the matter, and would rather just err towards hiding my inner closeted racist behind the curtain of just not giving a shit about much at all anyhow..."

This isn't a "cancel culture" issue. It's moving on from ingrained and harmful racial stereotypes.

> "I'm too lazy to dedicate any amount of critical thought to the matter, and would rather just err towards hiding my inner closeted racist behind the curtain of just not giving a shit about much at all anyhow..."

Derp, in a word.

I'm fine with store brands.  But when I finish the open box I'm gonna try a scratch recipe that landed in my inbox.

"All Recipes" or "Cooking Professionally" site.  Can't 'member.

Real maple syrup or nothin' at all.

Surfdead knows what's what. I'm surprised no Vermont zoners made this point earlier.