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Thursday, February 29, 2024

As Per Mystere & Minus FJ, Using Minorities As Mascots Is Not Racist. It Is Racist To Want To "Cancel" Them


Image: Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben are racist myths of happy Black servitude.

In a comment on the pro-Fart blog "Political Tea Leaves", Mystere took me to task for not knowing Black history.

As per Mystere, is is a "fact" that the Aunt Jemima logo "came from a photo of the lady who happened to be black [and] created a successful business of pancake syrup and mixes by herself and hard work".


So, I need to study Black History. As per Mystere (an assertion he makes using his "Rattrapper" account). But do I? Because what Mystere writes is false. It is a fictional account of the origin of the Aunt Jemima character. It does not comport with the actual history.

Wikipedia Articles Aunt Jemima and Nancy Green, excerpts...

Nancy Green portrayed the Aunt Jemima character at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and was one of the first Black corporate models in the United States. Subsequent advertising agencies hired dozens of actors to perform the role as the first organized sales promotion campaign.

Nancy Green (March 4, 1834 to August 30, 1923) was an American former female slave, who, as "Aunt Jemima", was one of the first African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark. The famous Aunt Jemima recipe was not her recipe, but she became the advertising world's first living trademark.

Green was hired by the R.T. Davis Milling Company in St. Joseph, Missouri, to represent "Aunt Jemima", an advertising character named after a song from a minstrel show. They were looking for a Mammy archetype to promote their product...

In 2014, a lawsuit was filed against Quaker Oats, PepsiCo, and others, claiming that Green and Anna Short Harrington (who portrayed Aunt Jemima starting in 1935) were exploited by the company and cheated out of the monetary compensation they were promised. The plaintiffs were two of Harrington's great-grandsons, and they sought a multi-billion dollar settlement for descendants of Green and Harrington. The lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice and without leave to amend on February 18, 2015.

So, according to Mystere's revisionist fictional history, Aunt Jemima founded the company (and presumably created the recipe for the syrup and pancake mix) through hard work. And racist liberals want to cancel her. Because she was a successful Black female entrepreneur which angers KKK Democrats.

But Mystere's fictional account of Aunt Jemima is not REAL Black History. As per the actual history, Aunt Jemima was not a family owned business founded by an African American woman named Jemima.

Mystere (because he is a racist) denies the real history, which is that "Aunt Jemima" is a fictional mascot created by the Pearl Milling Company. And that Nancy Green (among other African American women) was hired to protray "Aunt Jemima".

While that would have been a better origin story, it isn't the real history. If that was what acutally happened, Liberals would say Aunt Jemima should not be canceled. But, as per the real history, Nancy Green was "exploited by the company and cheated out of the monetary compensation" she was promised.

THAT was her reward for her hard work, Mystere. She was screwed over. Quaker Oats said that "Aunt Jemima is a fictional character -- and not based on a real person". So, Aunt Jemima the mascot did NOT come "from a photo of the lady". Well, that is what they argued. To avoid losing the lawsuit and having to pay up.

Mystere likes this fictionalized version because it allows him to say, "no, it's Democrats who are racist. They want to cancel Aunt Jemima".

YES. We do want to cancel her. Because she was a racist mascot. NOT the founder of the company. That would be a different situation. Then I'd be against canceling her. We'd be celebrating her.

But, the fact is that rightturds love racist mascots.


Image: fans pay tribute to the Native American heritage of the Chief's football team :(

As per the blogger Minus FJ, if you think the tomahawk chop is racist, you're guilty of trying to "steal away native American's heritage".

Even though "The Kansas City Indian Center has called on the team to change the name and stop the chop". These must be Native Americans who want to steal away their own heritage.

These are minorities who are racist against themselves, apparently. Why they don't like it when White people "honor their heritage" by using them as mascots. Dressing up like them. Perhaps in Blackface or by donning a Native American headdress. Putting on Blackface, that's also "honoring", right?


Image: Governor Ralph Northam says, that isn't me, it is someone else honoring African Americans in that picture.

Post authored by the Pro-Biden, Anti-Mystere blogger Dervish Sanders. wym296.

14 comments:

  1. The kid in your picture of the KC Chiefs fans wearing a headdress is actually Native American. His grandfather, who is also Native American, serves on the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians.

    So Native Americans celebrating their heritage is racist? Who knew?

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  2. The kid is going to be bigly RICH thanks to black face and head dress h8ers.

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  3. Minus: The kid in your picture of the KC Chiefs fans wearing a headdress is actually Native American.

    That isn't Raul Armenta and his son (name not given in the article you link to) in the picture I included in my post.

    It is Joel Donigan and his son, Maguire.

    Celebrating Native American heritage involves putting on a Chief's football jersey? Does that tradition go back to the days before the White man arrived?

    Your link: The Chiefs banned fans from wearing headdresses in Arrowhead Stadium.

    Sounds like a reason the lawsuit could be tossed to me. Nobody is saying he can't honor his heritage in the appropriate venue. Like a Native American meeting of some kind. As opposed to doing the "honoring" in a place where wearing headdresses is banned.

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  4. Sounds like the owners and management of the KC Chiefs need to attend some cultural sensitivity seminars so as to learn to not discriminate against native Americans with headband bans. Can you imagine them ordering black people not to wear Dashiki's in the stadium? Moslems, burkas?

    And how do you know that Joel and his son aren't Native Americans, also? Should it matter? Does Pocahontas Warren look "native American" to you?

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  5. I noted in my post that The Kansas City Indian Center says native American mascots are racist. You're saying these are Natives that want to genocide their own culture?

    Or just not have it appropriated by others?

    Minus: Can you imagine them ordering black people not to wear Dashiki's in the stadium? Moslems, burkas?

    No. Why would they? They aren't banning moccasins or deerskin clothing either.

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  6. Some Leftist freak who runs an "Indian" Center speaks for ALL native Americans? Who knew? F*ck him! What's worse, cultural "appropriation" or cultural "genocide"? The Chiefs aren't "making fun" of native Americans. I'd say they're doing "affirmative action" for native Americans. CHEERING for them! LOVING them. And you want to put an end to THAT? Really/

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  7. Minus: Some Leftist freak who runs an "Indian" Center speaks for ALL native Americans? Who knew?

    All (or most) of the people running the center appear to be Native Americans. Is that why (to you) they are "freaks"? Genuine Natives (not "Indians" in quotes) who don't like that a White football team is using a Indian Chief as a mascot are "freaks"? Even though their opinion is what a majority of of Native Americans think? Most Native Americans (who want this to stop) to Minus FJ are "freaks"?

    Minus: F*ck him.

    "Him"? I see 15 people on the staff and board of directors who identify as Native American (tribe they belong to is listed). Political affiliation is not given.

    Minus: CHEERING for them! LOVING them.

    They are? How many Native American football players are on the Chiefs football team? Are ALL the players Natives? Only most of them? Or are NONE of the players on the Chiefs team Native Americans?

    Fans at a game where the Baltimore Ravens are playing -- they are cheering for ravens and loving ravens?

    Minus: And you want to put an end to THAT? Really?

    No. Because that isn't happening. Why would I think something that isn't happening should end?

    Minus: I'd say they're doing "affirmative action" for native Americans.

    How so? If there are zero Native Americans on the team, are there many working behind the scenes? The Chiefs have a Native American coach? A Native American equipment manager? Lots of other Native American employees?

    Do they donate to Native American charities? Have a Native American scholarship fund? I don't know what you mean when you say they're doing "affirmative action" for Native Americans.

    Is that why you place "affirmative action" in quotes -- because they aren't doing ANYTHING except using an Indian Chief as a mascot?

    Wikipedia says "After Bartle helped lure the Dallas Texans American Football League team to Kansas City in 1962, owner Lamar Hunt renamed the franchise the Kansas City Chiefs after Bartle's nickname, The Chief".

    He was called "The Chief" because he was a Boy Scouts "chief". Not a Native American chief. He was a White guy. So, maybe they should change their mascot to a Boy Scout? Then the team can honor the Boy Scouts. Maybe they could call themselves the "Kansas City Scouts"?

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  8. Fans at a game where the Baltimore Ravens are playing -- they are cheering for ravens and loving ravens?

    Indeed they are. Baltimore LOVES the Ravens. Edgar, Allan, AND Poe!

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  9. Are these the human hybrids gwb warned us about? That's scary. If raven humanoids are playing football. But I find that very hard to believe. I think that picture you linked to are normal humans in costumes. And they don't even participate in any games.

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  10. Do fans of the Kansas City Tornadoes basketball team cheer for and love tornadoes? Tornadoes kill an average of 80 people a year. These fans must be some real a-holes, to cheer these deaths and injuries. And what about the property destruction? They're cheering for and loving that too?

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  11. Ravens can't symbolize Poe? Chief's can't symbolize bravery? Tornados can't symbolize energy/ force of nature? Is the word "Chief's" a Cherokee word we culturally appropriated? Enquiring minds wish to know.

    Sign signifier signified. Tie them together, Derv. It's not that hard.

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  12. One things for certain, the fans of the KC Tornadoes aren't trying to insult or degrade the weather event. They're "affiliating" with it.

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  13. Minus: Ravens can't symbolize Poe?

    But they don't -- re the Baltimore Ravens. They came up with that afterward. You think ALL Baltimore Ravens fans are also Poe fans? I doubt it.

    Minus: Chief's can't symbolize bravery?

    But most Native Americans don't like being used as a symbol by Whites. They asked people to stop. Many have. Others haven't. But the number of Native Americans who think it's honoring -- they are in the minority.

    Minus: Tornados can't symbolize energy/ force of nature?

    Yeah, but you claimed the mascot was being honored.

    Minus: Is the word "Chief's" a Cherokee word we culturally appropriated?

    So, they're talking about another kind of Chief? Maybe a police chief?

    Maybe they can continue calling themselves the Chiefs, but change their mascot to this?

    Police chiefs might like to be honored, cheered and loved by the Kansas City Chiefs?

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