Erasing Aunt Jemima and Don Juan de Oñate! (Weds. 6/17/20)
The Hake Report, Weds. 6/17/20: Aunt Jemima is disowned for “racial stereotypes”! Don Juan de Oñate is smeared by people worse than him! Boy Scouts support “Black Lives Matter,” not being morally straight!
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Intro
Look at this Carol Barr who died! Wife to Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), survived by Andy and two daughters after 10 years of marriage.
Trump’s niece is apparently liberal.
NBC News: "The Boy Scouts ... will require all Eagle Scouts to earn a 'diversity and inclusion merit badge'" https://bit.ly/2Bilpkw (tweet/article) <---- Tip from Spoiler Alert!
When are they gonna take away all of the advertisements clowning white men (and men in general) with negative stereotypes?
CALLERS
Peggy from San Antonio was at Wal-mart and heard a repeating message playing on the loudspeakers in support of black lives matter.
Jay from Montreal, Canada calls Aunt Jemima, Aunt Jamaica. He remarks about the India/China conflict.
Samuel from Sweden chats about BLM and the James’ video that got taken down.
Alton from Houston, TX wants James to apologize to him for his white privilege.
James from Florida remarks about the Aunt Jemima fiasco and has some comments about being an eagle scout.
Billy from somewhere — He called the other day all crazy. He made fun of James’s T-shirt and asks when he’s gonna wear a rainbow shirt.
Aunt Jemima ABANDONED!
...NOT to be confused with Mrs. Butterworth!
(NY Daily News) Aunt Jemima to change logo because it’s ‘based on a racial stereotype,’ Quaker Oats says
After 131 years, the Aunt Jemima name and image will be scrubbed from syrup bottles and pancake mix packages because they are “based on a racial stereotype," Quaker Oats revealed.
The company, a subsidiary of PepsiCo and owner of the Aunt Jemima brand, made the announcement Wednesday morning following ongoing criticism for its continued use of the character, a grinning black woman, to peddle its products despite the racist roots. The backlash has only intensified in recent weeks following the in-custody death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in Minneapolis after a police officer knelt down on his neck.
“As we work to make progress toward racial equality through several initiatives, we also must take a hard look at our portfolio of brands and ensure they reflect our values and meet our consumers’ expectations," Kristin Kroepfl, vice president and chief marketing officer of Quaker Foods North America, said in a press release first obtained by NBC News.
“We acknowledge the brand has not progressed enough to appropriately reflect the confidence, warmth and dignity that we would like it to stand for today.”
History of Aunt Jemima ERASED!
While Aunt Jemima’s appearance has evolved over the years, the brand was initially based off a song by a minstrel show performer called “Old Aunt Jemima.” According to the company’s website, the character was “brought to life” by Nancy Green, a formerly enslaved black woman.
(Wikipedia) Green was born into slavery on March 4, 1834, near Mount Sterling in Montgomery County, Kentucky.[4] She was hired in 1890[5] 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.[3]
She became the face of the breakfast product line in 1890. Aunt Jemima has since lost her kerchief as well as other stereotypical and racist symbols, but Kroepfl admitted Quaker’s best efforts to “update” the brand to be “appropriate and respectful” had failed.
“We are starting by removing the image and changing the name," Kroepfl said. “We will continue the conversation by gathering diverse perspectives from both our organization and the Black community to further evolve the brand and make it one everyone can be proud to have in their pantry.”
She added that the company plans to donate at least $5 million over the next five years “to create meaningful, ongoing support and engagement in the Black community.”
Quaker said the new packaging will begin to appear in the fall of 2020, and a new name for the foods will be announced at a later date.
More on Don Juan de Oñate
I told you about this in Hake News, end of Hour 2 today…
(Drudge) Police detain armed militia members after a man is shot at an Albuquerque demonstration… The STATUE BATTLE TURNS BLOODY…
(KOB 4) The artist who created Old Town's Oñate statue actually asked for it to come down.
Acoma War, according to Wikipedia
(Wikipedia) He was the first Spanish governor of New Mexico (1598-1606).
The 1599 Acoma Massacre was retaliation to what was seen as an uprising that led to the death of (eleven or) thirteen Spaniards at the hands of the Ácoma people, including the killing of Oñate's nephew, Juan de Zaldívar. The pueblo was destroyed. Around 800–1000 Ácoma were killed.[3] SOUNDS LIKE IT WAS A WAR. Of the 500 or so survivors, at a trial at Ohkay Owingeh, Oñate sentenced most to twenty years of forced "personal servitude" and additionally mandated that all men over the age of twenty-five have a foot cut off.[3] He was eventually banished from New Mexico and exiled from Mexico City for five years, convicted by the Spanish government of using "excessive force" against the Acoma people.[2]
HE SOUNDS NO WORSE THAN OBAMA OR PLANNED PARENTHOOD! Some of these protestors hate Obama too, but they love abortion….
Differing opinions with historians
El Paso historians have different opinions about Juan de Oñate monuments (by Marisa Saenz, Tuesday, June 16th 2020, KFOX TV)
“History happened. You can’t erase it,” said the Honorary Consulate of Spain in El Paso, Martha Vera.
Oñate was a Spanish conquistador who settled in what’s now the United States’ southwest region. The history Oñate would create is interpreted contradictory by two historians in El Paso.
“[Oñate didn’t come] to massacre people and it wasn’t to conquer anyone,” Vera said.
“The Spaniards enslaved the people, forced them to become catholic, they stole their land,” UTEP associate professor of communication and author of a book about Oñate, Frank G. Perez, said.
The two viewpoints are reflected across the region. Last week, the statue of Oñate standing in front of the El Paso airport was vandalized.
Another statue in Albuquerque was the focal point of a protest that began peacefully then ended in gun fire.
“It’s okay to protest, but it’s not okay to become violent and to destroy property,” Vera said.
Vera said those protesting against the historical monuments aren’t seeing the whole picture.
They only know the bits and pieces that were probably bad,” Vera said. “A coming together of cultures, which is what don Juan de Oñate wanted.
Vera said it represents how society got to where it is now. Perez sad it exploits the oppression of Mexican and indigenous people.
“[We] tend to glorify the Spanish colonial period but we don’t talk about the exploitation or slavery that went along with it,” Perez said.
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