Aunt Jemima
Twitter Drags Ben Stein Over Video Lamenting Aunt Jemima
Apparently, comedian, actor, and former Richard Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein is still pressed about Quaker Oats updating the historically racist Aunt Jemima brand and replacing it with a racially neutral and far less mammy-era-inspired brand, because conservative white people in America just really love their anti-Black nostalgia despite their insistence that America was not founded […] The post Twitter Drags Ben Stein Over Video Lamenting Aunt Jemima appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
Master P Is Launching A Food Brand To Rival Uncle Ben’s And Aunt Jemima
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Master P is bossing up in the consumer packaged goods industry. He now has his sights on the everyday foods we grew up with. As spotted on Page Six the New Orleans native is expanding his portfolio in a major way. According to the report he is aiming to take market share away from some legacy brands like Uncle Ben’s and Aunt Jemima. He detailed how he came to this new product launch in an interview with CNN. “When you look at Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben, a lot of those products are mockeries of African-American people and couldn’t even feed our communities. With Uncle P, the more we make, the more we give. And the only way to give is by owning these products,” P said. Earlier this year he took to social media to informally reveal his “Uncle P’s Louisia...
Racist Virginia Mayor Compares Joe Biden’s Potential VP Pick To Aunt Jemima
Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty The town of Luray, Va. is best known for its caverns and as the headquarters of the sprawling Shenandoah National Park. However, the mayor of the small town is being asked to step down in the midst of a racist post comparing Joe Biden’s potential vice president pick to Aunt Jemima. As reported by WTOP, a Washington area station, Mayor Barry Presgraves took to Facebook to make the racist job, writing, “Joe Biden has just announced Aunt Jemima as his VP pick.” Presgraves, who has served as mayor of the predominately-white town of just under 5,000, has seemingly deleted the post after the chatter around wording began to gain traction online. It has been long presumed that Biden, the former vice president, will select a woman as his running mat...
