Aunt Jemima brand to change name, remove image that Quaker says is 'based on a racial stereotype'

applecruncher said:
You need to research reverse discrimination and find out what it is because clearly you don't have a clue. 🙄
Your comment about protesting that white lives matter is silly and redundant. Your goose/gander comment makes no sense and isn't funny. To ridicule and minimize the issue of racism the way you have done in this thread is inappropriate, at best. 😠😒
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AC: I think reverse discrimination is defined and treated differently in the U.K. than it is here in the U.S. I don’t intend to speak for HD, but rather than start a whole thread about this, maybe we should clear up this part.
 

Aunt Bea said:
According to Mars, Uncle Ben was an African-American rice grower known for the quality of his rice. Gordon L. Harwell, an entrepreneur who had supplied rice to the armed forces in World War II.
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Uncle Ben's, a rice and grains company, adopted its brand name and logo in 1946. According to the company's website, the name "Uncle Ben" is that of a Black Texan rice farmer and the image is of a Black Chicago chef and waiter named Frank Brown.

Uncle Ben has a "contentious history," Stuart Elliott wrote in a 2007 New York Times piece recently cited by Delish. "White Southerners once used 'uncle' and 'aunt' as honorifics for older blacks because they refused to say 'Mr.' and 'Mrs.,'" he said.

On Wednesday, Uncle Ben's parent company Mars announced that it will be "evolving" the branding.

"As we listen to the voices of consumers, especially in the Black community, and to the voices of our Associates worldwide, we recognize that now is the right time to evolve the Uncle Ben's brand, including its visual brand identity, which we will do," they said in a statement.

Source: Delish, Uncle Ben's, The New York Times
 

Here's another one ~ It just goes on and on......

Mrs. Butterworth's

Syrup and pancake-mix company Mrs. Butterworth's adopted the personality of "Mrs. Butterworth" in 1961.

For years, the shape of Mrs. Butterworth's syrup bottles has been a point of contention. "Critics have long associated the shape of the Mrs. Butterworth's bottle with the mammy, a caricature of black women as subservient to white people," Maria Cramer wrote.

Conagra Brands, the parent company of Mrs. Butterworth's syrup and pancake mixes, has also released a statement saying that they have started a review of the brand and packaging.

"The Mrs. Butterworth's brand, including its syrup packaging, is intended to evoke the images of a loving grandmother. We stand in solidarity with our Black and Brown communities and we can see that our packaging may be interpreted in a way that is wholly inconsistent with our values," they said.

https://www.businessinsider.com/15-...d-logos-2014-6#mrs-butterworth-1961-present-2
 
And another ~ Think I heard about this is the not-too-distant past....

The NFL's Washington Redskins

In 2014, the US Patent and Trademark Office canceled six trademarks belonging to the Washington Redskins, including the team's old logo, after finding the name disparaged Native Americans. The word "redskin" is a racist slang term for America's indigenous people.

The Washington Redskins were founded in 1932 as the Boston Braves. The team changed its name to the Redskins in 1933.

The team's owners and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell have defended the use of the word and the logo, which depicts a Native American. In the wake of PepsiCo's decision to rename its Aunt Jemima products, however, more are calling for change for the football team.

Source: Business Insider, The Guardian, The Washington Post
 
RadishRose said:
The Cream of Wheat man is a chef.
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Since the 1880s, Rastus has been widely considered a pejorative term associated with black men. Through advertisements from the first part of the 20th century, the smiling chef is depicted as childlike and uneducated.
Cream of Wheat took Rastus off the box in 1925 in favor of a portrait of Frank L. White, a Chicago chef who remains on the box to this day (pictured above).
On Wednesday, B&G Foods, the parent company of Cream of Wheat, issued a statement announcing its plans to conduct an immediate review of the brand's packaging.
"We understand there are concerns regarding the Chef image, and we are committed to evaluating our packaging and will proactively take steps to ensure that we and our brands do not inadvertently contribute to systemic racism. B&G Foods unequivocally stands against prejudice and injustice of any kind," they said.
Source: The Jim Crow Museum Of Racist Memorabilia, Adweek, Business Wire
 
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Company: Chiquita

Originally a sexy banana, the mascot is now a sexy banana seller. She wears a Carmen-Miranda-esque fruit hat that gives an exotic and idealized image of the tropics.

(What's she gonna become after the feminists protest her sexy slinky look? hmmm)
 
I'm on a roll here; can't stop myself :giggle:

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Company: Cadbury Pascall
The ice cream treat named for a North American tribe became the subject of controversy in 2009 when a Canadian Inuit woman said the product name insulted her heritage.
A slow-moving and largely unpublicized battle in North America's northland has quietly raged on against the use of the word "Eskimo" to describe people with Inuit heritage.
But "Eskimo" is so ingrained that even the occasional blasts of bad publicity have failed to persuade manufacturer Cadbury Pascall to consider a new name.
Source: The Toronto Star
 
These companies are scared to death.
Get rid of him too.. crazy white man going around shooting guns.

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stereotyping Italians as eating nothing but spaghetti.
 
PopsnTuff said:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...change-name-remove-image-quaker-says-n1231260

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/uncle-ben-s-change-its-branding-part-parent-company-s-n1231329
Uncle Ben's rice to change brand as part of parent company's stance against racism.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ging-ensure-it-doesn-t-inadvertently-n1231407

Cream of Wheat becomes the next brand to re-examine its packagingMakers of breakfast porridge Cream of Wheat said they're conducting "an immediate review" of the brand's packaging, which features a smiling Black chef.

(Wow didn't see this coming but here it is.....I'll miss seeing her pretty face with lots of good childhood memories when preparing those pancakes.....Uncle Ben's too!......wondering if the brand names will change too)
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This is taking things just a little too far. For those of us who aren't racists, it never crossed our minds as to being racist symbols. I know I never thought of it that way. I grew up with Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, with never a thought about the color of their skin or what their station was in life.
Some of these things are really ridiculous. I couldn't believe it when they changed one of my favorite kiddie books, "Little Black Sambo" to "Little Brave Sambo."
What next? Change the "Bernstein Bears" book to something else to avoid anti-semitism? What about changing "Mrs. Butterworth's" syrup to something else to avoid implied ageism? After all, her trademark is an elderly grandmother type. Come on people!!!!! Accept individuals for who they are. What a novel idea. Rant over.
 
Being a chef is hardly demeaning any more. Chefs are well admired these days. One of our favorite shows is Top Chef. And guess what? There are black chefs, white chefs, gay chefs, Asian chefs, women chefs, or a combination of that. There is, in fact, this season, a gay, woman, Asian chef. She's a helluva good cook and I think she's gonna win. I think this stuff is political correctness run amok.
 
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Pops, the Washington Redskins name dispute is still going on. I don't think it will ever end.

This discussion made me wonder about the guy who appears on the box of Orville Reddenbacher popcorn. I started wondering if there really was such a person, and if that funny-looking picture was real. I googled him, and yes, he was real, and apparently had a sense of humor. He said, "I should learn to keep my mouth shut." I agree, it looks like he's bitten down on some of his uncooked product!

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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right."-- George Orwell, 1984
 
Ya know, with all this crap, I'm grateful that I have two of my favorite shows on DVD ("All in the Family" & "The Jeffersons,") because I'll never see them again & they'll probably ban the reruns in the near future.

And they'll probably ban my other favorite ("Married With Children") because it's "insulting to women." I have all of that one, too.
 
LindaB said:
This is taking things just a little too far. For those of us who aren't racists, it never crossed our minds as to being racist symbols. I know I never thought of it that way. I grew up with Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, with never a thought about the color of their skin or what their station was in life.
Some of these things are really ridiculous. I couldn't believe it when they changed one of my favorite kiddie books, "Little Black Sambo" to "Little Brave Sambo."
What next? Change the "Bernstein Bears" book to something else to avoid anti-semitism? What about changing "Mrs. Butterworth's" syrup to something else to avoid implied ageism? After all, her trademark is an elderly grandmother type. Come on people!!!!! Accept individuals for who they are. What a novel idea. Rant over.
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Exactly... you say it far better than me 👏
 
PopsnTuff said:
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Company: Chiquita

Originally a sexy banana, the mascot is now a sexy banana seller. She wears a Carmen-Miranda-esque fruit hat that gives an exotic and idealized image of the tropics.

(What's she gonna become after the feminists protest her sexy slinky look? hmmm)
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Hispanic or Latin people will be getting pissed off next-

iu
Hey we don't ALL wear fruit on our heads!
 
Look, we now live in a world where certain people like to get offended. They are the righteously indignant, and they stoke the publicity machine that keeps their rants front and center.

You can bemoan changes made, by Big Business, in the name of political correctness, but see it for what it is: In the end, it's ALWAYS about the bottom line. If money is to be made by taking Aunt J off her box, then it's so long Aunt J! The same goes for all other products that will follow suit. None want to be the target of some boycott, in the near future.

Yes, history is being rewritten, to an extent, but it's not Orwellian, at this point: As long as the internet stays relatively free of censorship, you'll still be able to see old boxes of Aunt J pancake mix, and see her picture. If/when it gets to the point where even pictures and information about our past start disappearing from cyberspace, THEN we will know that Orwell had it right, but simply had the wrong year.

I plan on not being around by the time Orwell's Dystopia is realized, although I strongly hope that time never arrives, with or without me in this world.
 
Pink Biz, you had me going for a minute there, with Sheila, the bisexual black lawyer who enjoys pancakes sometimes, until I saw The Onion on top! 😆
 

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