Sheee gone! Memory holed.
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But what about Betty Crocker??
Betty Crocker is white and a fictional character. A distant cousin played her on the radio.
Agreed that she's fictional, but that shouldn't matter. Her role is really no different than Aunt Jemima's.
Aunt Jemima was black. "They" also don't like that she was called "Aunt." "They" equate that with Uncle Tom.
"They" have no clue at all about life in the South. Down here, when black people were really close to you like family, we called them Aunt or Uncle So-and-So.
We did this for white people too. My wife occasionally mentions an Uncle _____, who is no kin at all. He just lived a couple of doors down. We call any other older people that we know with the titles Mr. or Miss, as in "Mr. Tom" or "Miss Mary."
We are respectful here in the South, and the rude Yankees don't understand that.
My mom growing up had a black lady take care of the house & cook too because my grandma had to work. Her name was Priscilla & she was like a second mom to her.