Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths

The mascots were intended to let white consumers indulge in a fantasy of enslaved people as submissive, self-effacing, loyal and contentedly pacified.
Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben and the Cream of Wheat mascot, Rastus, feed into stereotypes of enslaved domestic servants in the pre-Civil War South.
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Why are a lot of White so against changing the design of things like Uncle Ben's while at the same time saying it's not racist? Why not make 'Ben' an older White

Black Owned Food Brands for Your Pantry - Topdust

Aunt Jemima's Instagram, Twitter & Facebook on IDCrawl

Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben's, Rooted in Racist Imagery, to Change - WSJ

Did Uncle Ben really remove the black man on the face of every package? How is having a black mascot racist? Wasn't he the one who made the recipe for the rice

Decolonizing the Foods Lab - The British Columbia Food History Network

Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy Black servitude.

身份的挣扎——非裔美国人- 知乎

Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy Black servitude.

Are well fed slaves better than free poor people? - Quora

Are well fed slaves better than free poor people? - Quora

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