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.
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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Neil deGrasse Tyson on X: It's not that Aunt Jemima was a symbol of a racist past, she was the very embodiment of a racist past. She will not be missed by

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Panelists explain why Aunt Jemima retired – The Echo