\u201cThe racism they talk about, using images from slavery, that comes from the other side \u2014 white people. This company profits off images of our slavery. And their answer is to erase my great-grandmother\u2019s history. A black female. \u2026 It hurts.\u201d\n\n\n\n

The brand, whose emblem shows a black lady who was once an enslaved named Nancy Green, will be permanently withdrawn, according to Quaker Oats. Green was born into slavery, but Quaker only called her a \u201cstoryteller, cook, and missionary worker,\u201d according to sources.\n\n\n\n

The \u201cAunt Jemima\u201d brand name was first used when Green was contracted to serve pancakes at the Chicago World\u2019s Fair in 1893. A Quaker Oats representative witnessed Anna Short Harrington serving pancakes at the New York State Fair and decided to make her \u201cAunt Jemima\u201d after her passing in 1923. Larnell Evans Sr. claims Anna Short Harrington was his great-grandmother. She took up the role in 1935.\n\n\n\n

Evans said: \u201cShe worked for that Quaker Oats for 20 years. She traveled all the way around the United States and Canada making pancakes as Aunt Jemima for them.\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis woman served all those people, and it was after slavery. She worked as Aunt Jemima. That was her job. \u2026 How do you think I feel as a black man sitting here telling you about my family history they\u2019re trying to erase?\u201d\n\n\n\n

Evans is upset that the partnership was able to capitalize on a racial stereotype before quickly moving on when it proved convenient, especially because Quaker Oats plans to remove the name.\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow many white people were raised looking at characters like Aunt Jemima at breakfast every morning? How many white corporations made all the profits, and didn\u2019t give us a dime?\u201d said Evans.\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re just going to erase history like it didn\u2019t happen? \u2026 They\u2019re not going to give us nothing? What gives them the right?\u201d\n\n\n\n

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