Comment on Anti-racism be like

BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apparently the character was based on a black maître d’, so it wasn’t even particularly racist, since many white people also do this job. Therefore I’m inclined to believe the second reason might have been their actual motive, and the supposed racism was just a convenient excuse.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No. That was simply the man who originally posed for the picture. The brand was officially named after a sharecropper. However Uncle was also a common title for an older male house slave. Same with Aunt. Both the original rice farmer and pancake mix inventor were born into slavery and had their products lifted from them by white corporations.

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    • eatthecake@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have no ides about this, being Australian. Are you saying that the people on the boxes represent real people who had their recipes stolen?

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They weren’t stolen in the legal sense. There was a contract but it wasn’t an equal contract. The US actually has a history of this from the Reconstruction period right through the Civil Rights period (about 1865-1965). Especially with black musicians who supported white bands via record companies buying the songs off of them for a pittance compared to what they were worth.

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  • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Uncle Ben is literally a generic name given to house slaves. There were many Uncle Bens all across the south.

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My Uncle Ben at yo momma’s house last night.

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Remind me why we have tipping in the US?

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To Insure Proper Service

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      • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I suggest you have a quick search for the “history of tipping”

        Here’s one: cbsnews.com/…/tipping-jobs-history-slave-wage-cbs…

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