Running racism in America thread

I didn't mention the character artwork, which was redesigned 30 years ago. I was referencing strictly the brand named, which is changing.

 

it's a joke

 

Memory is foggy, but I swear she sounded like a polite british nanny in ads in the 1980s. I could be just making her sound like Mrs. Doubtfire.

 

My slightly racist grandmother used to make us eat this instead of cream of wheat. I always felt it was because of the white kid that she wanted us to look like.

 

I don't disagree, and I wasn't arguing to keep the name. I was just pointing out that no matter what anyone does these days, someone is going have something to say about it.
I just don't want to go to the grocery store and see this.

 

I mean, plenty of studio space to explore between "racist minstrel show names" and "highly sugared tree syrup product presented by The El Generico Corporation."

 

so it is written

so it is done . . . or at least under evaluation

Mars Inc says evaluating changing Uncle Ben's brand image

 

Yul Brenner’s most famous lines ever! Great Sunday Night at the Movies

 

Five year anniversary of the shooting at Mother Emanuel Church is Charleston SC by the White supremacist. Nine dead including a state senator who was leading a bible study.