Aunt Jemima’s Relatives Want Reparations
Daily Beast,
by
Tarpley Hitt
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
6/29/2020 5:22:55 AM
Earlier this month, when Quaker Oats announced that Aunt Jemima would get a new name and logo, a 47-year-old truck driver named Larnell Evans, Jr. received the news with some ambivalence. Evans is the great-great-grandson of Anna Short Harrington, one of several actresses who played Aunt Jemima at fairs and in advertisements throughout the early 20th century. The company’s rebrand and future $5 million donation rang hollow to him. “That’s the easy way for them to go,” Evans tells The Daily Beast. “I guess you would say, that’s saving money.”
He had a different reckoning in mind. Six years ago, Evans and his nephew, Dannez Hunter,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
BarryNo 6/29/2020 6:59:48 AM (No. 460465)
I find this whole thing tedious and ridiculous.
Aunt Jemima is NOT racist.
The race baiters are. I'd like to see THEM pay reparations for the millions in damages they've instigated.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/29/2020 7:05:53 AM (No. 460467)
The chant I keep hearing from the "black community:"
Gimmie mo' money!
Gimmie mo' money!
Gimmie YO' money!
Gimmie mo' money!
--The Song of the Gimmiedats
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BarryNo 6/29/2020 7:11:57 AM (No. 460473)
Considering what just happened in Minneapolis, where city council is 'hiring' a private security force with taxpayer dollars, immediately after defunding the police, this is their plan:
Create chaos, blame police and eventually military. Blame guns whenever private citizens defend themselves.
Eliminate police, and eventually the military who owe allegiance to the Constitution.
Outlaw private gun ownership as a danger to the public. As a coallary: run gun companies out if business by lawsuit or threat of BLM violence.
Hire private warriors who owe allegiance only to the Swamp critters in and out of Washington.
Kill anyone who objects. Take their 'rightful' place as the rulers of this country and the world.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
pinger 6/29/2020 7:44:55 AM (No. 460498)
Why is it that so many emerge from the womb with their hands out? It's no longer learned; it's in the DNA.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/29/2020 8:00:04 AM (No. 460520)
Sorry, but I won’t click on the Daily Beast. Has Evans ever been on welfare? Or received any other entitlements? If so, he has already received his reparations.
$26 Trillion and I’m sick to death of this whole demonrat run mess.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/29/2020 8:00:59 AM (No. 460524)
You each get 3 pancakes, be happy and shut up!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jar 6/29/2020 8:01:02 AM (No. 460525)
They actually expect the biggest modeling fee in history? Very likely the woman/women who posed for their pictures as Aunt Jemima signed release forms, which would entitle them to the normal nominal original modeling fee, period.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/29/2020 8:31:33 AM (No. 460563)
I have no doubt as to the claims made regarding their long-dead relative. But if she - a sharecropper turned cook - owned two houses in a nice neighborhood at the time of her death then I would believe she was amply compensated during her life. These gentlemen, five generations later as relatives but apparently not direct descendants, have neither standing nor something to grouse about. And filing an exhaustive claim without counsel seems akin to bringing a knife to a gun fight. Sorry, boys.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/29/2020 8:51:46 AM (No. 460589)
this is not a case about reparations. It is one about royalties, and I find it to be compelling.
Dead celebrities earn big bucks - Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson are just two examples of that. (MJ's father was frozen out of MJ's estate and future earnings - his mother was not. MJ's estate now earns more than his yearly earnings as a live person.)
I never knew that there was an actual Aunt Jemima until recently. Her heirs probably deserve some money, especi9ally if her recipe was used.
This is not about racism - it is all about capitalism.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 6/29/2020 9:09:13 AM (No. 460614)
Where are the reparations for the families and the descendants of Union Civil War casualties?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
3XALADY 6/29/2020 9:10:10 AM (No. 460619)
My first thought, when I read that family was upset, was that they were going to miss their monthly royalty check. It took long enough for the truth to get out.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 6/29/2020 10:06:49 AM (No. 460686)
Always with their hands out.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 6/29/2020 10:45:38 AM (No. 460730)
I could side with the ruling because the Evans were too stupid to be represented by an attorney. I understand Quaker Oats because they copyrighted the name the legal agreement for the recipe is entirely different the Evans boys pursued the wrong thing they had to prove the image and the real person are one in the same a very difficult task. Evans was not too smart.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/29/2020 10:51:38 AM (No. 460742)
Utterly absurd. Shirttail relatives come out of the woodwork to say that they are owed “reparations” because their long ago relative acted the part of a fictitious character?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DARling 6/29/2020 11:22:23 AM (No. 460787)
I don't think spokesmodels' kids are supposed to be supported in perpetuity simply because their parents took jobs and were well-paid to do them.
If opportunists and lazy bums put as much effort into bettering themselves as they do chasing cash cows in court, they would be highly successful people.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 6/29/2020 11:36:37 AM (No. 460804)
The love of money is the root of all evil. Indeed. Why do they spoil her legacy by trying to cash in on it? I would be thrilled to be able to tell my kids and generations to come that their ancestor was an inspiration for the image Americans have loved for decades. By claiming racism, they've turned their dear one into a cash cow.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/29/2020 1:02:10 PM (No. 460864)
Two acres and a mule were your relatives reparations. Blacks had it better than WHITE Irish and Scottish slaves brought to work in the colonies. Many of whom were slaves for life and were worked to death because they cost nothing, as British were expelling tens of thousands of Irish men and children into their island plantations and their colonies. Black slaves cost money and got much better treatment - even freedom after 7 years. So learn the TRUE story of slavery in this country before flapping your big fat lips.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Smart11344 6/29/2020 1:50:55 PM (No. 460919)
Thank goodness Brazil Nuts, known by other names are still safe.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
watashiyo 6/30/2020 3:04:40 AM (No. 461490)
Heck, just compensate them with a box of pancake mix every month for life.
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"Reparations" is on my most hated list after the word "demand" Where does it end ?
BTW I had the misfortune to go to Wally World today. Aunt Jemima is still on the shelf. In other news their war zone starts at dark. One way in and one way out of the store.
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