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Archived on 18 June 2020 at 12:45pm [URL redacted]
@CarlPerronne [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: With all this #woke BS going on, we totally ignored the fact that a Nancy Green, a black woman, who has been representing one of the most popular food brands in America for over 100 years has been erased from our history. @Quaker takes 5 steps back for black women. [URL redacted]
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Archived on 17 June 2020 at 2:30pm [URL redacted]
@CarlPerronne [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: @nypost I wonder if Gerber is going to reconsider their new baby for 2020? #AuntJemima is an American icon at any breakfast table, as big an icon as the #gerberbaby. GB = ok. AJ = bad. #woke #MentalHealthMatters [URL redacted]
"After an exhaustive search of over 327,000 entries, baby food and clothing giant Gerber has announced the winner of its 10th Annual Photo Search. Besides the stylish headwrap, Magnolia Earl was chosen as the 2020 Gerber Spokesbaby because of her 'joyful expression, playful smile and warm, engaging gaze,' Gerber noted on its website." https://spokesman-recorder.com/2020/05/08/introducing-magnolia-the-2020-gerber-spokesbaby/
Supplementary "Along with other 'controlling images' of African-Americans such as the Sambo, the Jezebel and the Sapphire, the mammy was a creation of white supremacy, intended to bolster and legitimise the status quo. Or, put more simply, the US were so desperate to be absolved of the crimes of slavery, that such an absolver -- maternal, asexual, ever-loyal and black -- had to be invented." https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190530-rom-mammy-to-ma-hollywoods-favourite-racist-stereotype #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryMammy #OtheringCaricatureSlaverySambo #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryJezebel #OtheringCaricatureSlaverySapphire #PowerControlChattelSlavery #TheoryMyth #PowerControllingImages [pdf]
Addendum presumably it's no coincidence that #IRLBrandAmbassadorMagnoliaEarl's wearing of a #SymbolHeadgearHeadWrap is meant to mimic the #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryMammy i.e. #OrgUSMIJimCrowMuseumOfRacistMemorabilia [Wikipedia] https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/mammies/
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