The world knew her as "Aunt Jemima," but her given name was Nancy Green and she was a true American success story. Born a slave in 1834 Montgomery County, KY, she became a wealthy superstar in the advertising world, as its first living trademark.
While in Kentucky, Green was employed by Charles Walker, then an attorney and later a distinguished Circuit Judge. She moved with the family to Chicago just after the Great Fire in 1872.
Walker heard that a friend was looking for a model for the Aunt Jemima character, and he suggested Green who, by that time, had served the family for many years. She was instantly recognized with the characteristics the guy was looking for... charisma, humor, and a fantastic cook.
Green was 56-yrs old when she was selected as spokesperson for the new ready-mixed, self-rising pancake flour and made her public debut in 1893 at the World’s Fair in Chicago. She demonstrated the pancake mix while serving up thousands of pancakes... and became an immediate star. She was a wonderful storyteller, her personality was warm and appealing, and her showmanship was exceptional. Her exhibition booth drew so many people that special security personnel were assigned to keep the crowds moving.
Nancy Green was signed to a lifetime contract, traveled on promotional tours all over the country, and was extremely well paid. Her financial freedom and stature as a national spokesperson enabled her to become a philanthropist, a leading advocate against poverty, and a fighter for equal rights.
She maintained her job until her death in 1923, at age 89, after becoming one of America’s first black millionaires.
This was a remarkable woman... and she has just been ERASED by politically correct liberal bedwetters.
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Just another brand that will fail because of their bowing down to the cancel culture. Oh well. There are plenty of products to use instead. What a foolish business model. DESTROY yourself to a minority who doesn't use your product anyway. BRILLIANT.
Yep. That's ashame because she was an incredible woman but when they dont know history and are brainwashed by the educational system thus is what we get.
100 years from now we will have forgotten Oprah Winfrey.
Fools.
Lost yet another long tome customer.
Any positive story regarding anyone of color will be cancelled. In order to re write history into the doom and gloom it is becoming. Any success story needs to go. I had read recently her family is not happy with the decision. I don't understand how Michael Jordan on a sock is worshiped yet, Aunt Jemima is a disrespect. This country has come a long way with rights of people for all color, sex. We have a ways to go. But to not celebrate how far we have come and to go backwards is telling to who is pulling the strings behind the scenes of this new movement to rewrite history and why.
The left killed off another icon we grew up with
Libs aren't smart enough to digest history. The dumb prevail. Morons leading functional idiots.
Remarkable story. The out of control left wing liberals are so full of hate which has blinded them to real facts. Most of these radicals are clueless as to history and are sheep following something they probably don't even understand only for the sake of making some noise and destroying things in their path. When this is all over and they return to their mundane life styles they will look around and wonder what happened.
Be prepared. The bed welters will be erasing every aspect of our history and its people if we let them. And unfortunately we seem to be letting them.
These commenters above need to stop acting like they don't buy that nasty Great Value artificial butter crap.
8:48 - thank goodness!
Many of us are trying to forget her now!
The ministry of truth have fixed it.
Please STFU. You sound so stupid EVERYTIME you make a comment. We don't care what it's made of. It's the taste. Don't you have a classroom to disinfect for your teacher libutard??
Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) introduced a Privileged Resolution calling upon Congress to ban any political organization or party that has ever held a public position supportive of slavery or the Confederate States of America.
It also calls for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remove from the House wing of the U.S. Capitol or any House office building any item that names, symbolizes or mentions any political organization or party that supported slavery or the Confederacy.
Rep. Louie Gohmert released the following statement:
“As outlined in the resolution, a great portion of the history of the Democratic Party is filled with racism and hatred. Since people are demanding we rid ourselves of the entities, symbols, and reminders of the repugnant aspects of our past, then the time has come for Democrats to acknowledge their party’s loathsome and bigoted past, and consider changing their party name to something that isn’t so blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and the Ku Klux Klan. As the country watches violent leftists burn our cities, tear down our statues and call upon every school, military base and city street to be renamed, it is important to note that past atrocities these radicals claim to be so violently offensive were largely committed by members in good standing of the Democratic Party. Whether it be supporting the most vile forms of racism or actively working against Civil Rights legislation, Democrats in this country perpetuated these abhorrent forms of discrimination and violence practically since their party’s inception. To avoid triggering innocent bystanders by the racist past of the Democratic Party, I would suggest they change their name. That is the standard to which they are holding everyone else, so the name change needs to occur.”
Co-sponsors include: Reps. Andy Biggs, Jody Hice, Randy Weber, Andy Harris.
Why off the topic? I don't care what syrup you purchase. That has nothing to do with it. Of course we all know you just want to stir the pot. Stir away.
I remember as a child making a craft with the Aunt Jemima syrup bottle. The bottle was was the shape of Aunt Jemima and we painter her and added a cork and sprinkler top for ironing cloths. Aunt Jemima and Mammy dolls were special to me because they represented a woman who cared for people Espically children. I can think of a more honorable loving gift.
Who?
I think it an honor to keep her name. I don't believe if she were alive today that she would be offended. She wasn't just a picture on the bottle. she was a spokes person for the company. Makes me sad that everything I grew up with is now considered racist. Bedweter. I like that - it is appropriate of those stealing history.
It's quite entertaining. Names like Aunt Jemima and Buckwheat along with many others were never racist until people made them that. Words like crow, chocolate, tar, the same. Most of them were used as slurs by blacks towards other blacks. We can keep changing names and using other words to describe things and people all day long and it will never be enough! Somewhere along the line we need to just cut th crap
Seems as though what is real( her success ) was what these social warriors didn't want to see. Perhaps there own stereo type vision out ways what was/is real. I confess to using the mix with the beautiful lady( and I ain't talking Betty Crocker ) because it tasted better than the one with the puggy little guy that laughed when poked in the belly.
You may want to fact check this story
Can you cite a source for the assertion that she made millions?
Here is an article from FIVE years ago:
https://daytonatimes.com/2015/09/10/original-aunt-jemima-found-after-nearly-100-years/
Her grave was unmarked, which leads me to doubt that she died wealthy.
So true 3:10. It's like the n word. It's only ok when blacks use it
This "POLITICALLY CORRECT BS" is out of control. I hope it causes the undecided voters to join the conservatives and put a stop to this left wing wacko better than thou crap.
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