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KillerKhan420 posted...

131 years of not only black history, but American history. Like as old as Coca-Cola. The image has changed over the years, it's not the same as it was but in 1900 ffs.

It's not like a minstrel character appearing in a Popeye cartoon or Bus Bunny wearing blackface for one scene of one short. She was created to play upon the slave/house servant stereotype and was presented as an obese Black woman with a nonsensical dialect: "Lawsee!"

The title of "Aunt" and "Uncle" came about as patronizing terms of endearment because titles of respectability such as "Mister" and "Missus" could not be applied to Black people in the Antebellum South. You could rebrand it as Jemima's Syrup, but why fight to keep a character who offers so little and has such an unsavory past?

I understand the fight against censorship. Mia did nothing wrong and should not have been removed from Land O Lakes. She was an authentic Native American woman designed by a Native American woman. The same does not hold true for Aunt Jemima. She was designed by people who wanted to present an image of Black servitude and conjure up nostalgia over the era of slavery.

Efforts have been made to change that image, but it's not worth holding onto a name or a character with such baggage.

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