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Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy Black servitude.

By A Mystery Man Writer

The mascots were intended to let white consumers indulge in a fantasy of enslaved people as submissive, self-effacing, loyal and contentedly pacified.
Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben and the Cream of Wheat mascot, Rastus, feed into stereotypes of enslaved domestic servants in the pre-Civil War South.
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Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy  Black servitude.

Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy Black servitude.

Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy  Black servitude.

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Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy  Black servitude.

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Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy  Black servitude.

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Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy  Black servitude.

Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths

Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy  Black servitude.

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Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy  Black servitude.

Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy Black servitude.

Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy  Black servitude.

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