Highland Deac
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If you Google Aunt Jemima ads and look through them (the Quaker Oats ones go back to around the 1940s), they're awful and clearly based on the happy plantation Mammy stereotype. Even as late as the 50s and 60s there were some offensive ads, like the one in the article. Of course they've updated the image and all that, but it's not hard to see why they're doing away with the name and the image. Honestly, I'm surprised that they haven't done away with it before now.