Very sad day at the end of black history month. After 130 years of Aunt Jemima brand, PesiCo - Quaker Oats decided to take down the picture and name Aunt Jemima from their products. The real Aunt Jemima is Nancy Green. Born a slave in 1834 in Sterling Kentucky, she earned her freedom in her late teens, early 20's. She went to work as a nanny for the Walker family raising their two boys. Somewhere between 1856 and 1959 they moved to Chicago. After the boys were raised, she went to work at a the Davis milling company where they promoted her great pancake recipe. I'm not sure when or how the Davis milling company became the Pearl milling company or was bought by them. Her picture was never on the box or the syrup. They used some model. She never got credit for all she did for them. While in Chicago, she co-founded the Olivet Baptist Church, one of the largest black churches in Chicago whose mission was to bring people out of poverty and fight for black rights. She died at the age of 83 and was still their spokesperson. She was buried in a remote corner of a black-owned cemetery with a grave stone that barely stuck out of the ground with the #291 on it instead of a name. Some brave man spent 10 years trying to find her family members to get permission to put a real head stone with her name on it. Just recently it was placed there at Oakwood cemetery in Chicago. Most people think the smart aleck who put something on TikTok about having a non-racist breakfast while pouring a box of Aunt Jemima down the drain and saying "black lives matter", is the reason PepsiCo and Quaker Oats caved to the cancel culture. I wonder if the individual who posted that stupid thing will be the wonderful community leader Nancy Green was?
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I was upset when they canceled aunt Jemima. But after reading a story, it makes a little bit more sense. It seems that she got no credit at all for her recipes, and they didn’t even use her own picture. And she got no credit for it right. Well then I could see why somebody would want to cancel that. Here’s a great story of a woman who got out of slavery, and made something of herself, but when she did… She still got shit on. I’m not for canceling products at all, but the fact that she got no credit at all kind of to me seems like she’s just still a slave. And I’m not about critical race theory, and I’m not about canceling people. I actually have a bottle of that syrup and I am keeping it.