Just a little history lesson for anyone who doesn't know the story.
Aunt Jemima was an advertising brand created by an African-American cook named Nancy Green who was a former slave before being freed to become a free market entrepreneur. She impressed the business executives at General Mills who gave her a lifetime contract to be their spokeswoman and featured her likeness on their food products. She became one of the first rich black millionaires to ever prosper in America and lived her dream to be an advocate for poor people to become educated and become breadwinners in society. Today people ignorant of this history have erased her legacy by pressuring the Quaker Oats Company to remove all images of her from their food products because they can't stand to see a successful person of color on the packaging of pancakes, syrup, and cornbread. May we all honor her memory.
Aunt Jemima was an advertising brand created by an African-American cook named Nancy Green who was a former slave before being freed to become a free market entrepreneur. She impressed the business executives at General Mills who gave her a lifetime contract to be their spokeswoman and featured her likeness on their food products. She became one of the first rich black millionaires to ever prosper in America and lived her dream to be an advocate for poor people to become educated and become breadwinners in society. Today people ignorant of this history have erased her legacy by pressuring the Quaker Oats Company to remove all images of her from their food products because they can't stand to see a successful person of color on the packaging of pancakes, syrup, and cornbread. May we all honor her memory.
