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| Topic | I'm not trying to be dumb, but what was racist about Uncle Ben's? |
| Hayame_Zero 04/26/24 12:03:09 PM #15: | "Uncle" having allusions to Uncle Tom, which is generally derogatory. That's why they retconned it as Ben's Original.
His visual depiction has always been relatively positive though, even in the 1940s. As opposed to Aunt Jemima, which was both based directly on a minstrel song and was a caricature. --- ...I think I'm done here... ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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