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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  nbcnews.com/…/relatives-aunt-jemima-actresses-exp…

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From that article:

    “The character of Aunt Jemima is an invitation to white people to indulge in a fantasy of enslaved people — and by extension, all of Black America — as submissive, self-effacing, loyal, pacified and pacifying,” Twitty wrote in a recent NBC Think essay. “It positions Black people as boxed in, prepackaged and ready to satisfy; it’s the problem of all consumption, only laced with racial overtones.”

    This piece is interesting but even the relatives understand the imagery to be racist.

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except Twitty isn’t a relative, as the previous paragraph to the one you quoted will tell you. He’s just a “culinary historian” with an opinion.

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      • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes. I’m referring to the family’s quote at the end of the piece.

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