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(12,286 posts)Thats always fun. 🙄
Nevilledog
(51,069 posts)Betcha she didn't join any BLM protests.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Yeah, that was the woman's dream. Not freedom. Face of syrup, that's why she survived slavery.
Young and stupid-- Unfortunately, she won't be young long, but she'll be stupid forever.
Renew Deal
(81,855 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)underpants
(182,762 posts)She got to be a brand!!!!
Ohiogal
(31,969 posts)Takket
(21,555 posts)Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)samnsara
(17,615 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,800 posts)and such like?
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underpants
(182,762 posts)FeelingBlue
(677 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)Saying that Aunt Jemima is the personification of the American dream is both patronizing and demeaning, intentionally so. I can see they is her intention by the smirk on her fucking face.
God, I despise Trump supporters.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Waiting for Malt-o-meal to change their packaging. We have one of the first Promo Advertising Cover sheets in a frame as a reminder of just how friggin Racist their product represents.
hatrack
(59,583 posts)Malt-O-Meal's just a picture of the cereal, I think .. .
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)it is Cream of Wheat. Just looked in the Pantry and sure as hell C of W. Sorry.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)It's also extremely stupid.
edbermac
(15,937 posts)As dumb as youd expect. Nice audition for Fox.
https://mobile.twitter.com/reaganeescude
underpants
(182,762 posts)She got fired from her job (doesnt say what) for posting gospel in response to BLM. youd have to look her up. Shes their cause celebre right now. Victim culture.
Yes she is primed for OAN or someday Fox.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,300 posts)My old missus promise me
Old Aunt Jemima, oh, oh, oh
When she died shed set me free
Old Aunt Jemima, oh, oh, oh
She lived so long her head got bald
Old Aunt Jemima, oh, oh, oh
She swore she would not die at all
Old Aunt Jemima, oh, oh, oh. 2
Kersands has been labeled the highest paid black minstrel of his time, his remarkable popularity based partially on his theme song, Old Aunt Jemima (Sacharow, 1982, p. 64).
The team of Baker and Farrell, dressed in aprons and red bandannas, was reminiscent of the traditional Southern cook. The song was so captivating that it had the whole town rocking (Campbell, 1964, p. 40). Mesmerized, Rutt knew that the song and costume projected the image for which he had been searching. He decided to mimic it, using not only the name but the likeness of the Southern mammy emblazoned on the lithographed posters advertising the act of Baker and Farrell, thus beginning a new era in advertising. This would be the first time a living person would be used to personify a companys trademark (Kern-Foxworth, 1988, p. 18).
https://web.archive.org/web/20140424192836/http://testaae.greenwood.com/doc_print.aspx?fileID=GR5184&chapterID=GR5184-561&path=books%2Fgreenwood
"Rutt borrows one more thing from the minstrel act - the crudely drawn sketch of a Black Mammy that appeared on the vaudeville duo's posters.
1893: New company owner R.T. Davis goes on a national search for a real woman to be Aunt Jemima. He finds Kentucky ex-slave Nancy Green. The logo is changed to look like her."
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iYhEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA146
Green went on to portray "Aunt Jemima" at fairs, store appearances, food shows and so on until her death in 1923. A steady job, but it's not as if "Jemima" was her name, or her invention; it pre-dated her, and she was an actress/model/spokeswoman in a part. I don't think the first person to play Ronald McDonald would claim the clown is tied up with his real life story.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)The savage irony... swore when she died she'd set me free...
She swore she would not die at all....
That is, she'll never set her free.
dalton99a
(81,443 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,391 posts)Tue Jun 23, 2020: No evidence former slave who helped launch Aunt Jemima products became a millionaire
There's a reply there with more information.
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muriel_volestrangler
(101,300 posts)rather than what your thread there had. Like this: https://apnews.com/afs:Content: 9030960288
but without the space between the : and the 9 . DU software tries to interpret them as a smiley.
Thanks for the article.