After Quaker Foods announced its rebranding, the great-grandson of the real Aunt Jemima expressed his fury that cancel culture is erasing her legacy.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, we reported that Quaker Foods caved to calls to \u201ccancel\u201d Aunt Jemima, and that the brand will be renamed. Now, the great-grandson of the real Aunt Jemima, Anna Short Harrington, is speaking out to express his anger and disappointment that her legacy is being erased.<\/p>\n
Great-Grandson Of \u201cAunt Jemima\u201d Anna Short Harrington Speaks Out<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an injustice for me and my family. This is part of my history, sir,\u201d Larnell Evans Sr. told Patch. \u201cThe racism they talk about, using images from slavery, that comes from the other side \u2014 white people. This company profits off images of our slavery. And their answer is to erase my great-grandmother\u2019s history. A black female. \u2026 It hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former enslaved woman Nancy Green debuted the first \u201cAunt Jemima\u201d at the Chicago\u2019s World\u2019s Fair in 1893. Green was a cook who worked in the South Side of the city. She was hired to wear a headscarf and an apron while serving pancakes to those visiting the fair.<\/p>\n
She continued to portray the character of \u201cAunt Jemima\u201d until her death in 1923. Then, Evans said his grandmother Anna Short Harrington took her place.<\/p>\n
Quaker Foods Uses Anna Short Harrington\u2019s Likeness
\nHarrington worked as a cook for Syracuse University fraternities where members loved her pancakes. She was discovered by a Quaker Foods representative while serving her pancakes at the New York State Fair in 1935.<\/p>\n
Quaker Foods hired her immediately and used Harrington\u2019s likeness on products and advertising while also sending her all over the nation to serve her pancakes dressed as \u201cAunt Jemima,\u201d making her a national celebrity in the process.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe worked for that Quaker Oats for 20 years. She traveled all the way around the United States and Canada making pancakes as Aunt Jemima for them,\u201d Evans said. \u201cThis woman served all those people, and it was after slavery. She worked as Aunt Jemima. That was her job. \u2026 How do you think I feel as a black man sitting here telling you about my family history they\u2019re trying to erase?\u201d<\/p>\n
Evans, a 66 year-old veteran of the U.S. Marines who lives on disability, said that Quaker Foods also used Harrington\u2019s pancake recipe. Her descendants tried to sue the company for $3 billion for not paying them royalties in 2014, but they lost the case.<\/p>\n
Evans Doubles Down
\nEvans said that Quaker Foods should admit that they profited off images of slavery as well as the likenesses of Green and Harrington, rather than erasing them from shelves completely.<\/p>\n
Some folks are like minded and shared their thoughts:
\nTo the white people who erased black history with #AuntJemima pic.twitter.com\/YJe2q57Fnl<\/p>\n
\u2014 Nicole Arbour (@NicoleArbour) June 18, 2020
\nJust like \u201cGone with the wind\u201d They canceled the first Black person\/woman (Hattie McDaniel) to win an Academy award. She was a trail blazer. Yes the story on what people went threw is hard but they went threw it all to break barriers. and now they try to cancel them!<\/p>\n
\u2014\u00a0\ud83d\ude0eL Bowen\u00a0\ud83d\ude93\u00a0(@Dahmomof4) June 18, 2020
\n\u201cHow many white people were raised looking at characters like Aunt Jemima at breakfast every morning?\u201d he said. \u201cHow many white corporations made all them profits, and didn\u2019t give us a dime? I think they should have to look at it. They can\u2019t just wipe it out while we still suffer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter making all that money \u2014and now\u2019s the time when black people are saying we want restitution for slavery \u2014 they\u2019re just going to erase history like it didn\u2019t happen?\u201d Evans added. \u201cThey\u2019re not going to give us nothing? What gives them the right?\u201d<\/p>\n
But, Quaker Foods has announced that Aunt Jemima imagery and branding will be removed from all products by the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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