I still don't understand the Aunt Jemima thing. She looks like a really nice old black lady who would cook some pancakes and wants her hungry family to be happy. What's the controversy about that? We can't have a nice looking black woman on a bottle of syrup?
It's not like she's even negatively portrayed, it's literally just a picture of a black woman smiling. In fact isn't that what they want - more "representation?" They put a bunch of black people in commercials now, how is this any different for her to be commercial advertising?
I understand that I'm probably overthinking insane mentality which can't be rationalized, but I can't even try to see the argument at all. Such a strange thing for cancel culture to have targeted.
It says a lot the intellectual capacity of your people when a wholesome, loving, mother figure is considered a racist stereotype.
I think it's the title "aunt" and how that was like a signifier of useful to white people and therefore respectable.
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