*** OFFICIAL *** Cancel Culture and Corporate Wokeness Thread

[Dan Druff]

I'm still trying to understand how a picture of a black woman on syrup is racist.

Were mass numbers of black people complaining about this? I doubt it.

Looks like more virtue signaling from woke white liberals who strain their shoulders patting themselves on the back for being so sensitive.

The original logo was pretty bad and the jemima name has some history.

The original logo is gone, though.

At this point, it's just a black woman, and there's no racist connotation to the label. Also, I only heard complaints from woke whiteys. I didn't see any kind of real movement from black people to get rid of this. In fact, Aunt Jemima herself was not ever portrayed negatively -- even in old times. The "black mammy" figure was seen as a responsible, motherly woman, who was unfortunately enslaved. Celebrating her is fine, even if her circumstances are condemned.

But the current Aunt Jemima doesn't have a mammy look, but rather just a middle-aged black woman smiling. I see no reason to get rid of that, other than to make white leftists feel good about how sensitive they are.