a fan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 1:14 pm
Kismet wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:37 pm
kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:35 pm
Families of Aunt Jemima models object to the erasing of the brand/history:
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/3233423001 ... ssion=true
The family of Lillian Richard, a native of Hawkins, Texas, also spoke out against the rebranding decision.
Richard was the face of Aunt Jemima from 1925 to 1940, a Texas CBS station reported, noting signs into the town say “Home of Lillian Richard ‘Aunt Jemima.'" In 1995, the Texas Legislature passed a resolution declaring Hawkins as the "Pancake Capital of Texas."
“I wish we would take a breath and not just get rid of everything, because good or bad, it is our history,” Vera Harris, family historian for the Richard family, told KLTV. “Removing that wipes away a part of me. A part of each of us. We are proud of our cousin.”
Nuance - a lost art both here and across America
IMHO, we wouldn't have this problem if we had made small, thoughtful changes over the decades. Instead, we held the cultural pendulum in place....leading to wild swings...
How do we then measure them, enough so, that it satisfies everyone? Not sure how that can, or ever will happen; meaning, what specific task(s), laws, monuments, etc will be the barometer that everything is now cool?
How can we make color transparent in our daily lives and yet be forced to measure it everywhere else, like every application to school, college, work, all forms of registration, general statistics, etc, etc. It seems unfathomable to find the end.