Well the cancel culture is at it again, happy Wednesday America.
Quaker Oats is retiring the more than 130-year-old Aunt Jemima brand and logo, acknowledging its origins are based on a racial stereotype.
“As we work to make progress toward racial equality through several initiatives, we also must take a hard look at our portfolio of brands and ensure they reflect our values and meet our consumers’ expectations,” the company said in a statement first obtained by NBC News.
Liberalism is literally a mental illness in America as they’re offended by everything, and expect to cancel anything they don’t like. If you don’t agree with them, they then decide to try to destroy you and your career, kind of like what they have done to me for investigating Seth Rich.
“We recognize Aunt Jemima’s origins are based on a racial stereotype,” Kristin Kroepfl, vice president and chief marketing officer of Quaker Foods North America, said in a press release. “As we work to make progress toward racial equality through several initiatives, we also must take a hard look at our portfolio of brands and ensure they reflect our values and meet our consumers’ expectations.”
Aunt Jemima is “a retrograde image of Black womanhood on store shelves,” Riché Richardson, an associate professor at Cornell University, told the “TODAY” show on Wednesday. “It’s an image that harkens back to the antebellum plantation … Aunt Jemima is that kind of stereotype is premised on this idea of Black inferiority and otherness.”
“It is urgent to expunge our public spaces of a lot of these symbols that for some people are triggering and represent terror and abuse,” Richardson said.
Aunt Jemima’s appearance has evolved over time. The brand’s origin and logo is based off the song “Old Aunt Jemima” from a minstrel show performer. The company’s website said the logo started in 1890 and was based on Nancy Green, a “storyteller, cook and missionary worker.” The Aunt Jemima brand was purchased by Quaker Oats in 1926. PepsiCo bought Quaker Oats in 2001.
Well, adios to one hell of a great pancake syrup America. Thanks liberals, you ruin everything!
Do not judge people of the past by the standards of today.
In 100 years, driving a polluting car may be deemed as “violence against the environment” and that would condemn most leftists of today, since most of them drive cars.
I will never buy Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben’s, Quaker oats or any other product they want to ban just like they want to ban our freedoms …..again.