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

Sunny said:
Been There, since you said good-bye, you probably won't see this, but I've got to ask anyway: What in tarnation is the "SF clique?"
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I only know that I'm sure not in it. Trying to get into cliques since High School, I was never wanted, except once but that's a whole other story.
 

StarSong said:
I didn't want to call BS on the poster. It's possible she found a couple of Native Americans who don't find the term "Redskin" offensive. It's also possible that a rare Italian-American professed to not find guinea, dago or wop offensive. Possible. Undoubtedly uncommon but possible.

By the time I was born in the 50s most Italian prejudice had diminished considerably or moved far enough underground in my neighborhood that it was barely noticeable. High profile post-war entertainers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sophia Loren sure helped.

Not so for many of my Jewish, Black, Hispanic and LGBTQ friends, who still deal with this ignorance. :cry:

Truly, I see a disheartening amount of thinly veiled racism on this very forum.
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Trying to address this AND one of your previous posts at the same time:

When referring to the school, I was referring to former classmates AND MYSELF. And much later, a couple of coworkers.
Maybe if you get the context: there's a celebrity named Brian Copeland, and he addressed this in one of his books- virtually everybody he talked to insisted he 'identify' by certain terms, and the terms were all different. His grandmother used the word 'Colored,' his mother got mad about that and said he must say 'Black,' and a friend later told him he couldn't use those words and should call himself 'African-American.'
And I can say personally it's darned confusing to me, too. So I generally try to keep my mouth shut because I don't want to risk saying the 'wrong' thing- even when referring to myself!!

It's entirely possible you have more knowledge of the word 'Redskins' origins, but I've never considered it derogatory. And I don't even know when the long-time usage of 'African-American' was replaced with 'Black' again, til I noticed it here on this forum a few years ago.

I guess I was lucky that I experienced very little negativity personally in other locations and/or in the past. In person, I was only on the receiving-end of a derogatory remark once- just a couple of years ago, some high schoolers using the 'N' word. And on this forum, the word 'mongrel'- not only was it not taken seriously, some individuals gave the comment 'likes.'

Ongoing, though, I'm smackdab in the middle of it- from a hate symbol representing 'Death to Jews' to landlord who actually said 'I don't like Black people.' And they're only a couple of examples.

edited to add (re: your previous post)- the school didn't withstand pressure from us- nobody asked our opinion.
 
My farrier came by to shoe my horses.
Herman's an older guy, does not like to mingle with others
He gestured for me to come over to the corral,
which is unusual as he is not a talker.

"Mr. G what you think going on?"

"As in...?

" You think there might be a crazy bug snuck into this coronavirus?

"Uh, no don't think so."

" Well, how come everyone on the street talks like they just had a lobotomy?"

'I said nothing.'

"Well I seen that movie, 'The Body Snatchers,' bet'cha somebody's got a bunch of pods hid out.

"Room for thought, Herman, room for thought."

Herman clamped his mouth shut, no more words from Herman.
 
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Pepper said:
Well, it was high school and they were the 'popular' kids. Don't worry, I started hanging out in other places (Greenwich Village) and found 'my' people!
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Even in high school I passed on all that. The popular kids excluded lots of other kids which turned me right off of them. They expected to be sucked up to and I’m not the sucking up type so despised most them. Plus they constantly gossiped. Yep! Couldn’t wait to be part of all that. NOT! 🤦‍♀️
 
I went to a high school named Weequahic. Our section of Newark, NJ was the Weequahic section, named after the tribe that used to live there. Our school symbol was a stylized "Indian chief," and our football team was called the Indians. (They were terrible football players, mostly Jewish boys who excelled academically and were no match in sports for the Italian, Irish, and black kids on the other school teams.) Nobody considered the name insulting. I don't know if that has changed, but the school is still called Weequahic. It was made famous in Philip Roth's books.
 
Keesha said:
I’m not a fan of singing about a reindeer with a red nose or a brown one for that matter.
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When I was a kid, one of the magazines I read had a section for jokes and some would not have been at all compatible with today's PC...
One was about a guy named Rudolph, from a place known for Communism.. he and his wife were arguing about the weather- she insisted it was snowing, he insisted it was raining, and after they argued for awhile he retorted "Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear!" :eek:
 
OneEyedDiva said:
One of my crazy friends posted this. His caption "The pancake problem solved....moving on."
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Yes, because it's always a good thing to substitute one insult for another. Who decided that calling a white woman "Karen" is OK when calling a black woman "Aunt Jemima" is not? The crap never ends, it just changes course.
 

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