Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy Black servitude.
The mascots were intended to let white consumers indulge in a fantasy of enslaved people as submissive, self-effacing, loyal and contentedly pacified.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...hs-ncna1231623
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