Posted on 06/17/2020 11:15:50 AM PDT by kevcol
NEW YORK — The owner of the Uncle Ben’s brand of rice says the brand will “evolve” in response to concerns about racial stereotyping.
Caroline Sherman, a spokeswoman for Mars, which owns Uncle Ben’s, says the company is listening to the voices of consumers, especially in the black community, and recognizes that “now is the right time to evolve the brand, including its visual identity.”
In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, activists and consumers have demanded that companies take a stand against racial injustice or lose their business.
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How about rename is Aunt Karen’s White Rice?
Next will be hockey pucks, after all, why are hockey pucks black, why can’t they be white..here you have white hockey players hitting a black puck, obviously that is totally racist/sarc
How about rename is Aunt Karen’s White Rice?
Or Ching Chong Super Best Lucky Rice?
Yes, because having a genteel, kindly-looking elderly black man as your logo is “racist.”
As I have said on other threads. The woke-corporate and leftist answer to “racism” is to remove any references to black characters from previous society and culture
The perverse result will be that before long, black people, their identity, and culture are going to exist ONLY as a pure political and ideological construct of the Left, to be used at their command.
Django’s unchained rice!
How about lets just end it altogether.
We can end aunt jemima too right now.
Lets take all blacks off all packaging of materials. Lets just do that.
Then they will b1tch they dont see black people on products.
I am so sick of the racist trotskyite bullshiite.
When is it Lucky Charms’s turn?
Ice is white. That’s racist, too.
All this time the company was racist?
Won’t that be killing that Clyburn politician’s second gig?
Uncle Tom’s sounds good.
Still OK to hate the Irish?
Uncle Bens Kicking Whiteys Ass Rice
Uncle BLM’s Racist Rice
First the Indian on Land o lakes butter, then Aunt Jemima, then Uncle Ben, this could be never ending. Why not package everything in a plain box with an agreeable font describing the contents, like RICE, PANCAKE MIX, BUTTER. The assign a number corresponding with the manufacturer as many company names are also problematic and racist, like Apple Computer, Apples are for healthy people and discriminate against unhealthy people and is triggering.
Well, we know the success of “woke” brands. Just ask Gillette after their ridiculous gender identity based campaign not long ago, lol.
I buy the big 25 pound bags Generic.
I hate it when food goes PC.
Christopher Columbus statues pulled down, Gone with the Wind showings suspended by HBO, Cops off the air, Robert E Lee statues beheaded, Uncle Ben soon to be a has been, etc. The left and their media allies need to stop with the hysterical virtue signaling by judging the mores of the past in light of today’s changed values for those values one sanctimoniously espouses today will no doubt be judged and found lacking by others in the future as we constantly evolve.
What could possibly be construed as racially insensitive concerning Uncle Ben????
The bow tie???
No more a racial issue than Colonel Sanders, Mr. Whipple, Granny Smith or Chef Boyardee.
Yep, that’s exactly it. Soon no one will know or care about indigenous American people, because every positive Indian character/logo/mascot has been erased from history.
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