On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:02:55 -0400, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's obviously Aunt Jemima, who once adorned boxes of pancake mix. She > was once considered Americana. She is now considered racial > stereotyping. At best. I'm surprised that anyone would display it, > Although I don't believe that people should be offended by an image out > of the post, no matter what their color. But today's political > landscape says otherwise. > Paul
Yes, Aunt Jemima, no doubt about it. And, yes, she's been "updated and sanitized", and if you buy a box of her pancakes, she looks like a business woman these days. No doubt it would be politically incorrect to continue to market products using the person in Bill's photo. However, such memorabilia is now quite in vogue - among blacks. As I understand it, it's quite chic these days to purchase and display remnants of the "bad old days" when these sorts of images were quite respectable. Very cool photo, btw, Bill! Kinda scary, too (it's those eyes..). cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
