I never knew I was supposed to see Aunt Jemima as a slave or a stereotype. I thought she was just a friendly woman from the 1800s, who wore 19th-century clothes, and made a mean pancake. Now I learn she's supposed to be a slave or a "Mammy," something of which most whites and blacks have little memory.
Some years ago, she got an update, so she looks like a very classy aunty indeed. The old stereotype, if that's what it was, was discarded. Just the name and the pancakes remain. Are Biblical names racist, now? But, despite what she's managed to make of herself, she's cancelled. How does that make sense? It doesn't. Does this help black people? It doesn't.
She apparently came from a minstrel song written by a black man, and despite now having a more respectable image than most white women (does your old lady wear pearls in the kitchen?), she's somehow holding black people back. Well, isn't that a bit like the way black America came from slave ships, and now count billionaires and beloved celebrities and a top TV talk show host, and a president among their ranks? I guess Barack Obama and Oprah and Michael Jordan should be cancelled then.
This is an hour from me. Bethel is in a very red county. The funny thing I’ve seen is that a large majority of the BLM protesters are white.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpO3_2yBd2U