They should ask for their degree back!
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Presumably either Don Regan, Ronald Reagan’s chief of staff, or the wicked daughter in King Lear. Weird choice either way.
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ETA @Ceran_Swicegood beat me to it!
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Bless her heart…
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those motherfuckers didn’t even shed a fake orange tear when the Land O Lakes Indian girl was canceled
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I’m pretty sure her history comes from the back of a box of pancake mix. At one point the Aunt Jemima advertising team invented a back story for their fictional character about how she was a former slave who was “paid in gold” for her delicious pancake recipe. That ad copy seems to have metastasized into “history” for the Fox News crowd.
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You never know what sort of racist gobbledygook is gonna splurt out of the mouth of Donald Trump and his human props.
Human polyps, not so much props.
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Tomorrow she’ll demand to speak to the manager! 
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No, this is straight up Prager U type thinking about the past.
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I would like to say you are both right. cepheus42’s link covers the early marketing that created the myth of the enslaved woman selling the recipe to the company. But it’s some pretty hardcore Prager U level scholarship to believe the ludicrous marketing materials rather than looking up a more in depth history of the company (which is clearly possible, see cepheus42’s link).
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You do realize that you’re 'splaining history scholarship to a historian, don’t you?
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Northwestern State University in Louisiana? I’m from Louisiana and I’ve never even heard of that shithole. Really, she couldn’t make it into LSU? I think the admission requires you to have a pulse.
if people REALLY cared they would celebrate the life of Nancy Green and not have a fit over syrup
It’s racism that’s the problem here; not the syrup said racism was used to sell.
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A racist stereotype- and if you want to remember the women who portrayed the character- remember that they were exploited while doing so.
AP:
“ However, there is no evidence that Nancy Green shared in any of the profits from the company that sold the pancake mix, said Patricia A. Turner, professor of African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author.
Green would continue her work as a housekeeper and died in 1923 after being hit by a car.
In “Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America,” author Micki McElya wrote that very few people outside Green’s close friends and fellow parishioners at Olivet Baptist Church were aware of her role as Aunt Jemima.
The brand would replace Green as Aunt Jemima with several different women, including Anna Harrington. In 2014, the descendants of Harrington sued Quaker Oats and its parent company PepsiCo saying that Green and Harrington were exploited and asked for their shares in developing the brand.”
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Oh man, I just learned that Disneyland used to have “Aunt Jemima Pancake House,” complete with an actor dressed as Jemima herself to interact with customers.
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Why do you support racist exploitation?
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At least their cult leader will be in jail.
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Well… their pancake mix is still better than Bisquick. Here’s hoping they don’t stop making the mix. Syrup is another story though. I don’t like the high fructose watered down maple syrup.
yeah, I get that and I certainly do NOT support exploiting Nancy Green.
my point is remove her association entirely from the syrup product and celebrate HER life separately
