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brenthutch

Aunt Jamima canceled

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“A great woman erased from history by idiots. 
The branding of the syrup was a tribute to this woman’s gifts and talents. Now future generations will not even know this beautiful woman existed. What a shame. The world knew her as “Aunt Jemima”, but her given name was Nancy Green and she was a true American success story. She was born a slave in 1834 Montgomery County, KY. and became a wealthy superstar in the advertising world, as its first living trademark. Green was 56-yrs old when she was selected as spokesperson for a new ready-mixed, self-rising pancake flour and made her debut in 1893 at a fair and exposition in Chicago. She demonstrated the pancake mix and served thousands of pancakes, and became an immediate star. She was a good storyteller, her personality was warm and appealing, and her showmanship was exceptional. Her exhibition booth drew so many people that special security personnel were assigned to keep the crowds moving. Nancy Green was signed to a lifetime contract, traveled on promotional tours all over the country, and was extremely well paid. Her financial freedom and stature as a national spokesperson enabled her to become a leading advocate against poverty and in favor of equal rights for all Americans. She maintained her job until her death in 1923, at age 89. This was a remarkable woman, and sadly she has been ERASED by politics. I wanted you to know and remind you in this cancel culture time period.”

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1 minute ago, jakee said:

That's a nice reposting of someone else's opinion. Since you don't even know enough about her to be able to spell her name I doubt you're ready to have a discussion about it.

Yep.  Indeed, the claim that the evil cancel culture warriors have besmirched the name of the saintly Aunt Jemima loses some of its luster when the person can't even be bothered to spell her name right.

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From Wikipedia:  "Green died in 1923 and was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave near a wall in the northeast quadrant of Chicago's Oak Woods Cemetery. A headstone was placed on September 5, 2020."  

I'm sure there's more to the story, but that doesn't sound like a wealthy superstar to me.

 

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2 hours ago, brenthutch said:

She was born a slave in 1834 Montgomery County, KY. and became a wealthy superstar in the advertising world, as its first living trademark. Green was 56-yrs old when she was selected as spokesperson for a new ready-mixed, self-rising pancake flour and made her debut in 1893 at a fair and exposition in Chicago. She demonstrated the pancake mix and served thousands of pancakes, and became an immediate star. She was a good storyteller, her personality was warm and appealing, and her showmanship was exceptional. Her exhibition booth drew so many people that special security personnel were assigned to keep the crowds moving. Nancy Green was signed to a lifetime contract, traveled on promotional tours all over the country, and was extremely well paid. Her financial freedom and stature as a national spokesperson enabled her to become a leading advocate against poverty and in favor of equal rights for all Americans. She maintained her job until her death in 1923, at age 89. This was a remarkable woman, and sadly she has been ERASED by politics. I wanted you to know and remind you in this cancel culture time period.”

Pity you got the meme version, and not the real one.

She was replaced in 1900 because she refused to cross the Atlantic for the Paris exposition. She did continue to work for the mill, however she also worked as a housekeeper (as per the census). Probabably not because she loved it so much.

She was also required as part of her contract to talk about how happy all the slaves were back on the plantation.

The meme version of the story is as accurate as the story about Kruschev's speech to the United Nations about the US going socialist piece by piece towards communism. Except, of course he wasn't at the UN that day, and the transcript of his speech doesn't say that.

I guess it makes a good story.

Wendy P.

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33 minutes ago, wmw999 said:

Pity you got the meme version, and not the real one.

Cue Brent being shocked, shocked, that anyone would assume he agreed with the statements he posted as the entirety of his contribution to the thread.

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From an AP fact finding story on this:

"The brand got its name from the minstrel song “Old Aunt Jemima,” which was composed by African American comedian and performer Billy Kersands. Chris Rutt, who created the pancake flour in 1889, was inspired by the song after hearing it during a minstrel performance and decided to give the name to his pancake flour. At the time, Aunt Jemima was seen as a “mammy” character, a racial stereotype of a slave happy to please her white masters.

Rutt then sold his company to a larger milling company, R.T. Davis Milling Co., after failing to sell the flour. The milling company brought its mix to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and hired Nancy Green, a former slave who was working as a cook for a judge, to act as Aunt Jemima and sell the pancake flour."

None of this matters to Brent. He has his nose back into Facebook looking for his next left wing meme outrage. It fits nicely with Brent's outlook on Blacks. All happy to serve their masters and making lots of money for doing little.

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So.....the product formerly sold as "Aunt Jemima" pancake mix. (not that hard for a reasonably literate person to spell btw) is made by the Quaker Oats Company, which in turn is owned by PepsiCo. Why would Pepsi risk the damage to their brand that the heritage of this name could cause? No one from the outside asked for the brand to be "cancelled". Pepsi, which is run by marketing geniuses just decided to get ahead of the curve because they are not stupid.

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11 minutes ago, gowlerk said:

So.....the product formerly sold as "Aunt Jemima" pancake mix. (not that hard for a reasonably literate person to spell btw) is made by the Quaker Oats Company, which in turn is owned by PepsiCo. Why would Pepsi risk the damage to their brand that the heritage of this name could cause? No one from the outside asked for the brand to be "cancelled". Pepsi, which is run by marketing geniuses just decided to get ahead of the curve because they are not stupid.

Well, the 'right' has to be outraged about something.

They went whole hog into the 'cancelling' of Dr Seuss.
When the family (administrators of the estate) decided that the author himself wouldn't be super happy with some of the racial caricatures and stereotypical descriptions (common at the time the books were written & illustrated), they decided to stop printing and distribution of a couple titles.

Of course, the 'alt right idiots' went ballistic that the books were being 'banned'.

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33 minutes ago, NewGuy2005 said:

Next up:  "The War on Christmas!"

Now that you mentioned it. From Brent's favorite "news channel" and the Harvard Business Review 2016

"How Fox News Created the War on Christmas"

"Fox hosts originated the idea of a war on Christmas. The term arose in the writings of anti-immigration activist Peter Brimelow in 1999 but languished until October 2005, when John Gibson appeared on The O’Reilly Factor to discuss his new book, The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought.

The thrust of the argument made by Brimelow and Gibson is that governments and large corporations are actively pushing an anti-Christian agenda."

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6 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

I refuse to concede to the woke mob.  It wasn’t a slur until some leftist academic decided it was.  I chose my words carefully.

Depends on the language, and whether the person you’re referring to considers it to be offensive. But since it would refer to a Native American woman, it probably doesn’t matter to you what they think, only what you think. 
Wendy P. 

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11 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

Squaw. You sadly don't realize that's an ethnic slur. 

There is a proposal before the CO Gov right now to change the name of Squaw Mountain. But he is being a bit reluctant, and asking:

"Are we sure we want to go with Mestaa'ėhehe Mountain? How about something a little easier to pronounce?"

I don't know why they want to use that odd spelling for a word that is simply pronounced mess-taw-HAY. 

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14 minutes ago, wmw999 said:

Depends on the language, and whether the person you’re referring to considers it to be offensive.
Wendy P. 

I actually asked her and she said it was more offensive to be disappeared.

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25 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

I actually asked her and she said it was more offensive to be disappeared.

I get it. You're torqued because you won't be able to make your famous Aunt Jemima pancakes with a dollop of Land O' Lakes butter. Of course, any serious breakfast cooker would top off such a fine repast with a slosh of Mrs. Butterworth's syrup, but poured only from a mammy bottle.

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6 hours ago, brenthutch said:

I refuse to concede to the woke mob.  It wasn’t a slur until some leftist academic decided it was.  I chose my words carefully.

You mean you refuse to concede that you were duped?

It's tough when acknowledging reality might look like you're agreeing with a liberal. I guess you have no choice but to plough ahead with the falsehood.

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