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As Quaker Foods Rebrands Aunt Jemima, Is There Hidden Racism In America’s Kitchens? (Uncle Ben's Rice)
Forbes ^ | 6.17.2020 | Seth Cohen

Posted on 06/17/2020 7:53:59 AM PDT by Carriage Hill

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To: rktman

So if it is sold with a plain label, should it be black print on a white background or white print on a black background.

Or maybe black on a black background?
Lavender on a lavender background?

Next up, #Alllabelsareracist?

#Removealllabels ?

#Blanklabelsmatter ?

Packaging industry introduces NEW “Cans without Labels”!
No worries, the commissar at the government store will
tell you what they are and how many you’re allowed to buy.


41 posted on 06/17/2020 8:23:36 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: TheConservativeBanker

There is no systemic racism. Systems are simply processes, not sentient, so cannot be racist. Only individuals can be racist ... or not racist.


42 posted on 06/17/2020 8:23:42 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: carriage_hill

Sounds a lot like Peanut Jews. If only there was an SJW know-it-all arch-lefty author we could ask about whether that is offensive.

43 posted on 06/17/2020 8:28:27 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: carriage_hill

Rename it to Aunt Bee...


44 posted on 06/17/2020 8:28:42 AM PDT by DEPcom
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To: carriage_hill

This literally was an article from the Onion last Friday

https://www.theonion.com/quaker-oats-replaces-historically-racist-aunt-jemima-ma-1844015205


45 posted on 06/17/2020 8:28:51 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey (Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people -Socrates)
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To: carriage_hill
Didn't they already ruin Aunt Jemima? They made her all "modern"? How about Uncle Ben? How about Uncle Jemima?

Uncle Jemima's malt mash liquor

46 posted on 06/17/2020 8:29:33 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: carriage_hill

Are white people still allowed to eat black and wild rice?
What about black beans?


47 posted on 06/17/2020 8:30:18 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Rurudyne
I couldn't help immediately thinking of the fast-food industry when I read your post. Perhaps some wise black Americans could look at the following and tell me how they could NOT think of this as symptomatic of a totally racist industy:


48 posted on 06/17/2020 8:33:03 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: Phillyred

Just let them try it with “Uncle Achmed’s Hummus”!!!


49 posted on 06/17/2020 8:33:49 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: carriage_hill

Many years ago, I had occasion to visit the president of General Mills, manufacturer of the famous line of Betty Crocker cake mixes. Typically, each box of product had a picture of their attractive mascot herself (there was no real Betty Crocker, it was an advertising personna created by General Mill’s predecessor company).
The Prez was a nice fellow and he cleared his office right away to invite me in. In the brief minute or two I was in the waiting room, I noticed an entire series of framed Betty Crocker portrayals. About 30 of them. And, there was something strange about them that I couldn’t quite figure out. When El Prezidente came out to greet and usher me into his office, he saw I was starting at the Betty pics. He asked how I liked them and I said they’re great but is there something odd about them? Yes, there was. Prez said that each picture changed a little bit from its predecessor in the lineup. So, I started at the beginning picture from 1921 and walked the gallery. Indeed, each pic was a little bit changed, especially in the more recent years. Prez explained that the corporation wanted to keep Betty in tune with their customer demographic. Therefore, she changed her race slightly each year. By the time of my visit in the 1980’s I think it was, Betty had genetically mutated to become something like 9 percent black, 11 percent Chinese, 19 percent Mexican, 58 percent white, and 3 percent Martian.

Maybe USA will someday get away from all this racism but I don’t expect to live long enough to see it


50 posted on 06/17/2020 8:34:48 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: petitfour

I sure hope Negra Modelo doesn’t disappear !


51 posted on 06/17/2020 8:37:18 AM PDT by Senormechanico
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To: carriage_hill

Got to rename orange juice (AKA “O.J.”).


52 posted on 06/17/2020 8:40:33 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: Rurudyne
White to the Future!
Perhaps not in the way you might expect

53 posted on 06/17/2020 8:40:59 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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54 posted on 06/17/2020 8:42:15 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: carriage_hill

racist?

or stereotype?

big difference


55 posted on 06/17/2020 8:42:17 AM PDT by Principled (No one will conquer America, from within or without, until its citizenry are disarmed.)
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To: jmcenanly

Cheaper packaging ... less expensive food?


56 posted on 06/17/2020 8:43:34 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Migraine

Also we have to take “inward” out of the dictionary. It sounds exactly like “N-word”.


57 posted on 06/17/2020 8:44:35 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: RightGeek
Hmmm, this could be a problem


58 posted on 06/17/2020 8:44:41 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Eskimo pies are on the chopping block ????”

Yeah, they’re now going to be called Alaskan Native Pies! lol


59 posted on 06/17/2020 8:45:59 AM PDT by ProudVet97
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To: Migraine

We’ve got to change the name of certain shovels (no more spades).

We also have to change the way we fish for crappie (no more jigs).


60 posted on 06/17/2020 8:46:11 AM PDT by Migraine
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