So from my research what seems to be the issue is that the origins of aunt jemima stem from her being used on the syrup brand to represent a homely/nurturing image. Because of slaves that were responsible for taking care of their master's children (making breakfast, etc) while potentially not being able to take care of their own in the same way. Bottom line though who cares if they change some controversial imagery or names, it doesn't affect your life at all and obviously bothers some people so let them change it.
So they are not by any means banning black characters on products, just those who came about from racially insensitive background. It's not as though aunt jemima was an actual person with a role in creating the syrup.
Supposedly the original Aunt Jemima was a lady named Nancy Green, who portrayed her for 20 years, went to shows as her, and advertised as Aunt Jemima.
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She was also an advocate for black rights.
It's a little more complex than that. She was a model that auditioned for the roll of a subservient black house cook. It wasn't her recipe and she wasn't involved in the company outside of her image. It was after she got famous that she used her platform to speak out for poor folks in Chicago. You take what work you can get but she definitely didn't help the cause by giving racist a spokesperson to point to and say "now why can't you be more like that colored gal on the syrup bottle?"
It's a little more complex than that. She was a model that auditioned for the roll of a subservient black house cook. It wasn't her recipe and she wasn't involved in the company outside of her image. It was after she got famous that she used her platform to speak out for poor folks in Chicago. You take what work you can get but she definitely didn't help the cause by giving racist a spokesperson to point to and say "now why can't you be more like that colored gal on the syrup bottle?"
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She was also an advocate for black rights.