Thursday, June 18, 2020

Remove All The Things - Black People From Packaging Edition

Some Aunt Jemima is gone, and Uncle Ben is about to be shown the door, and Mrs. Butterworth better lose some weight as she's a tad too suggestive.

After all, in some people's minds any depiction of blacks is racist.

CNN: Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben and the 'flesh'-colored crayon

I do love the way the opinion writer easily dismisses the success of the real Aunt Jemima - Nancy Green.

Apparently, removing images of black people from packaging will, according to the opinion write, progressives, and Pepsi, help the journey towards racial equality. After all it's "doing something".

Zakycon (A Russian maker of gourmet (and real hot) mustards and horseradish had no comment as to whether they would be changing their logo:

Now that's a caricature bordering on the offensive right there...

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