Land 0'Lakes Butter lady: It's amazing how my perspective changed once I learned some facts

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57. Oh give me a break

Other than the Univ. of PA football team, I don't see the image of a quaker man seeping into the culture at large--although I'm sure you know there have been periods of intense prejudice against quakers, who were indeed identified at least in part by their broad hats. That's how Pennsylvania came to be, after all.

I likewise have not seen the other images (CrackSnapplePopLittleDebbieetc) used in any derogatory way *ever*.

Yet. My mother's best friend gave her a grocery list holder which was an Aunt Jemima analog; check out tablecloths from the 1950s and early 60s; take a look at cartoons (including mainstream ones like Bugs Bunny) from their very beginning up through the 1950s ---in fact, do you know that the white gloves worn by cartoon characters are a holdover from minstrel shows (Krazy, by George Tisserand, about the creator of Krazy Kat), the face on those cat clocks with the tail for a pendulum and on and on and on. My high school's talent show was backed by a minstrel band, complete with blackface. Have you never watched old movies?

This stuff is insidious because the people who do it are genuinely surprised to be accused of racism. They learned it from Aunt Jemima, among other sources